pickup

Nouns

  • (n) a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard pickup truck,
  • (n) a warrant to take someone into custody
    • put out a pickup on that man
  • (n) anything with restorative powers
    • she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her
    pick-me-up,
  • (n) a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
  • (n) the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
    • his car has a lot of pickup
    getaway,
  • (n) mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge pickup arm, tone arm,
  • (n) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable cartridge,
  • (n) the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
    • garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays
  • (n) the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

Synonyms

pickup truck pick-me-up getaway pickup arm tone arm cartridge

Words of close approximity

picky
pickax picker picket pickle
pickup arm pickup truck