What does pickup mean?

Definitions for pickup
ˈpɪkˌʌppick·up

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word pickup.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. pickup, pickup trucknoun

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

  2. pickupnoun

    a warrant to take someone into custody

    "put out a pickup on that man"

  3. pickup, pick-me-upnoun

    anything with restorative powers

    "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"

  4. pickupnoun

    a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

  5. pickup, getawaynoun

    the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

    "his car has a lot of pickup"

  6. tone arm, pickup, pickup armnoun

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

  7. cartridge, pickupnoun

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

  8. pickupnoun

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

    "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"

  9. pickupnoun

    the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

Wiktionary

  1. pickupnoun

    An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.

  2. pickupnoun

    A pickup truck.

  3. pickupnoun

    Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games.

    At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.

  4. pickupnoun

    An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter. See also pick-up line, pick-up joint, pickup artist.

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

  5. pickupnoun

    An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.

  6. pickupnoun

    (US, Canada) The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate. See also gain

    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

ChatGPT

  1. pickup

    A pickup is generally a small or medium-sized truck that has an open rear cargo area, also known as a bed, which is traditionally used for carrying goods or equipment. It can also refer to the act or process of collecting or fetching something or someone. In terms of music, a pickup is a device that captures the vibration produced by a musical instrument to convert it into electrical signals.

Wikidata

  1. Pickup

    A pickup device is a transducer that captures mechanical vibrations, usually from suitably equipped stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, electric bass guitar, Chapman Stick, or electric violin, and converts them to an electrical signal that is amplified, recorded, or broadcast.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PICKUP

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pickup is ranked #30889 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Pickup surname appeared 753 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pickup.

    81.8% or 616 total occurrences were White.
    12.7% or 96 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    3.1% or 24 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.5% or 12 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pickup in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pickup in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of pickup in a Sentence

  1. Chris Paul:

    I’ve been playing pickup, 3-on-3, 2-on-2, but 5-on-5 is totally different, especially when your first game back is in Denver. I mean, whew!

  2. Stefanie Birkmann:

    I’m not so pessimistic for the year as a whole. I think it will take some time to work this through, but I think we are seeing a pickup already in medium-size deal activity.

  3. Greg Landsman:

    I think that they see this for what it is, which is a very winnable race and big pickup opportunity and critical of maintaining the majority.

  4. Charles Watson:

    Nancy, certainly more questions than answers. We heard in the week that the FBI had discovered Brian Laundrie's remains at the Environmental Creek Park. Not far from the Laundrie's North Port home here. An autopsy was completed on that body -- results came back inconclusive. Remains are being sent to a forensic anthropologist who will sift through the remains and figure out any clues to try to determine cause of death, here at Laundrie's home in North Port, it has been quiet today. This morning we got a first look at the Laundrie parents leaving the home together, they were in a hurry, jumped into a red pickup truck and left. They sped off.

  5. Sanjeewani Yogarajah:

    (We are) almost 50% booked for the winter and see a pickup in bookings, this time also we hope we will get around 90% (bookings) by winter.

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