Usually means: Pay the bill for everyone.
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  1. pick up the tab: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pick up the tab: Merriam-Webster
  3. pick up the tab: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pick up the tab: Wiktionary

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  1. pick up the tab: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pick up the tab: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (pick up the tab)

verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic, chiefly US) To accept a bill and pay it, especially at a bar or restaurant.

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