A fork of Rural Dictionary
An event, usually occurring in Physical Education. Used to select teams for recreational sports in class. A captain is usually selected for each team, and they pick a player to join their team. The more popular or more athletic students are usually picked early, while the unfit and unpopular are usually picked last. Nobody EVER wants to be picked last, as it is seen as demeaning.
Joe: Did you hear the big news?
Jack: We play dodgeball in gym today.
Joe: Oh yeah?
Jack: And that's not all, we had a pick'em, and when it came down to either picking that dorky John kid or that fat Jim kid, Jim shit himself, and Johnny fainted!
Joe: Well, I sure hope I'm not picked last!
The way a country person refers to a city person's truck. Short for pick them up truck, as in pick up the kids from school. refers to a truck that has never been off-road, never towed a trailer and the heaviest thing in it's bed is ego and a weeks worth of groceries. Always a crew cab, because it is actually used as a minivan.
He went from his office job to the school in his shiny new pick'em up truck to get the kids.