English to English
noun
- a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
source: WordNet 3.0
- a warrant to take someone into custody
Put out a pickup on that man.
source: WordNet 3.0
- anything with restorative powers
She needed the pickup that coffee always gave her.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
source: WordNet 3.0
- the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
His car has a lot of pickup.
source: WordNet 3.0
- mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
source: WordNet 3.0
- an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
source: WordNet 3.0
- the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
Garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays.
source: WordNet 3.0
- the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
source: WordNet 3.0
- Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
source: Webster 1913
