Definition of pick-up
1. pickup [ n ] a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
Used in print:(Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)
Hardly had Mrs._Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck , father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty 's '' Ford sedan , came screeching to a dust swirling stop , and a brown face appeared , its nose threatened by shards of_what had once been the side window .
The car was just about to us , its driver 's fat , solemn face intent on the road ahead , on business , on a family in Sante_Fe - on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human_beings desperately needed rescue .
Synonyms pickup pickup_truck Related Terms truck technical2. pickup [ n ] (informal) a warrant to take someone into custody
Examples:
"put out a pickup on that man"
(Frances and Richard Lockridge, Murder Has...)
`` Send_out a pickup on Mrs._Mason and the boy when you 've got enough to go_on '' , Bill said .
Synonyms pickup Related Terms bench_warrant colloquialism3. pickup [ n ] anything with restorative powers
Examples:
"she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"
(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)
Try that late winter pickup when you are so tired_of cold and snow that you feel you just can't take another day of it .
Synonyms pickup pick-me-up Related Terms corrective perk_up4. pickup [ n ] a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
Synonyms pickup Related Terms acquaintance pick_up5. Pickup [ n ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 29827
Synonyms Pickup6. pickup [ n ] the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
Examples: : "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"
7. pickup [ n ] mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
Synonyms pickup pickup_arm tone_arm Related Terms mechanical_device record_player8. pickup [ n ] the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
Examples:
"his car has a lot of pickup"
9. pickup [ n ] an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
Synonyms pickup cartridge Related Terms electro-acoustic_transducer crystal_pickup record_player stylus10. pickup [ n ] the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
Synonyms pickup Related Terms acquiring transportationSimilar Spelling
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