pickup

1 a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard [syn: pickup truck]

2 a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on that man"

3 anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her" [syn: pick-me-up]

4 a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

5 the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup" [syn: getaway]

6 mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge [syn: tone arm, pickup arm]

7 an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable [syn: cartridge]

8 the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"

9 the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

English

Noun

1. A shortened form of pickup truck.
2. Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games.

   At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.

3. Alternative spelling of pick up.

Pickup or pick-up may refer to:

• Pickup (music), a device which detects vibrations from musical instruments
• Anacrusis or upbeat, also called pickup note(s)
• Pickup artist, a man who is skilled in meeting, attracting, and seducing women
• Pick-up (film), minor shots filmed after the primary filming of a movie to augment what has already been shot
• Pick-up (gaming), anything that you collect whilst playing a video game
• Pickup group or Pickup band, a musical ensemble brought together for only a few performances
• Pick-up line, intended to be short and easy method of engaging another person for sex or romance
• A colloquial term for acceleration, particularly of vehicles.
• Pickup truck or pick-up truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo area
• Pickup tube a type of cathode ray tube.
• Shih-Te, a Zen Chinese poet (literal translation: "Pick-Up" meaning "Foundling")
• A film directed by Lucia Sanchez
• Pick-up, a 1955 novel by Charles Willeford
• Pick-Up (1933 film)
• Pickup, a biscuit from Bahlsen

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