subs. phr. (common).—A carnal acquaintance, male or female: whence, a whoremaster.
Adj. (colloquial).—Composed of what is at the moment available: as a PICK-UP dinner; a PICK-UP crew, or team. Cf. SCRATCH and POT-LUCK.
1873. MARIETTA HOLLEY, My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet’s, 302. She needn’t make no fuss about dinner at all, I will eat a PICKED UP dinner, I had jest as lives as not, I didn’t come down here to put her out and make her any trouble.
