pick up the phone

pick up the phone (third-person singular simple present picks up the phone, present participle picking up the phone, simple past and past participle picked up the phone)

1. To pick up the receiver of a telephone, generally with the intention of making a phone call.
2. To answer an incoming telephone call.

• pick the phone up, pick up the telephone, pick up
• (answer a call): answer the phone, answer

• hang up the phone, hang the phone up, hang up