pick on

/pˈɪk ˈɒn/

/pˈɪk ˈɑːn/

[verb]

to pick on

[VERB]

MAIN VERB

[phrase form: pick]

to keep treating someone unfairly or making unfair remarks about them

*** Select (a person) for a task, etc.

Examples

1. It makes my blood boil to think two thugs decided to pick on an innocent young girl.

2. With computer programming becoming an increasingly in-demand skill, many who might have been picked on in high school are now going from zeros to heroes.

3. 'Pick on'.

4. Other fellows picked on me.