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