pick-me-up

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

pick-me-up
    n 1: anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup
         that coffee always gave her" [syn: {pickup}, {pick-me-up}]
    2: a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) [syn:
       {bracer}, {pick-me-up}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pick-me-up \Pick"-me-up`\, n.
   A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer. [Colloq.]
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]