pickup

(noun)

noun

1. a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard

Definition categories: man–made, motortruck, truck

2. a warrant to take someone into custody

- put out a pickup on that man

Definition categories: communication

3. anything with restorative powers

- she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her

Definition categories: man–made, corrective, restorative

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

Definition categories: person, acquaintance, friend

5. the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

- his car has a lot of pickup

Similar word(s): getaway

Definition categories: attribute, acceleration

6. mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge

Definition categories: man–made

7. an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable

Similar word(s): cartridge

Definition categories: man–made

8. the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places

- garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays

Definition categories: act, aggregation, assembling, collecting, collection

9. the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

Definition categories: act, acquiring, getting

Sentences with pickup as a noun:

- At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.

- Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pickup, I'm not interested.

- The returns from the election show Apple Party candidate Jane Doe has made a pickup in the district of City West defeating Orange Party Incumbent Joe Smith