pickup
Pluralpickups
Often confused with pick up
- 1Short for pickup truck. It is a light truck with an open space in the back for carrying things.
My dad drives an old red pickup to work.
We loaded the couch into the back of the pickup.
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- 2Coming to get someone or something and taking them away, usually by car or truck.
The restaurant is open for pickup until nine tonight.
I set up a pickup for the old couch on Friday morning.
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- 3Put together on the spot, like a game where the players are picked at random.
After school, we played a pickup game of soccer in the park.
There is pickup basketball at the gym every Saturday morning.
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- 4An attempt to flirt with someone in the hope of getting a date, romance, or sex.
She could tell right away that his friendly chat was a pickup.
The club had a reputation as a place for quick pickups.
- 5The time of day when children or other passengers are collected.
The street outside the school gets very busy at pickup.
I'll be late for pickup, so Grandma is getting the kids today.
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- 6How fast a car or other vehicle can speed up.
This little car has great pickup when the light turns green.
The old van has almost no pickup on steep hills.
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- 7A part with a coil and magnet that senses the shaking of metal strings, as on an electric guitar.
He changed the pickup on his guitar to get a warmer sound.
My new guitar has two pickups under the strings.
- 8Something in a video game that a player can grab to get a bonus or special effect.
Grab the glowing pickup to get an extra life.
This level is full of pickups that make you run faster.
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- 11A person someone has flirted with successfully, hoping for romance or sex.
He left the party with a pickup he met that night.
She did not want to be just another pickup.
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- 12The part of a record player that changes the needle's shaking into an electric signal.
Dad put a new pickup on his old record player.
The pickup turns the tiny movements of the needle into an electric signal.
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- 13Answering the phone when it rings.
There was no pickup, so I left a message.
The office phone is set for automatic pickup after three rings.
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- 14How well a microphone or similar device catches sound.
This mic has good pickup even from across the room.
The pickup on my phone is bad when it's windy.
- 15A small extra shot filmed later to add to what was already filmed.
The cast came back for a few days of pickups.
We filmed a pickup of the dog running across the yard.
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- 16In some ball games, catching or hitting the ball just after it hits the ground.
The shortstop made a clean pickup and threw to first.
Her pickup off the low bounce went into the net.
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Origin
It is made from pick and up.