to leave quickly, to run away
Quando a polícia chegou, todo mundo picou a mula.
When the police arrived, everyone ran away quickly.
The image comes from work in the countryside: picar means driving a spur into an animal to make it move (esporear), and picar a mula meant urging the mount on to leave a place.
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