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Noun: pickup 'pik`úp- A light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
- pickup truck - A warrant to take someone into custody
"put out a pickup on that man" - Anything with restorative powers
"she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"
- pick-me-up - A casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
- The attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
"his car has a lot of pickup"
- getaway - Mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
- tone arm, pickup arm - An electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
- cartridge - The act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
"garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays" - The act of taking aboard passengers or freight
Verb: pick up- Take and lift upward
- lift up, gather up - Take up by hand
"He picked up the book and started to read" - Give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
"We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway" - Gather or collect
"She picked up the children at the day care centre"; "They pick up our trash twice a week"
- collect, gather up, call for - Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- learn, hear, get word, get wind, find out, get a line, discover, see - Get in addition, as an increase
"The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home" - Take into custody
- collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, nab, cop, nick [Brit] - Buy casually or spontaneously
"I picked up some food for a snack" - Register (perceptual input)
"pick up a signal"
- receive - Lift out or reflect from a background
"The scarf picks up the colour of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile" - Meet someone for sexual purposes
"he always tries to pick up girls in bars" - Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- elate, lift up, uplift, intoxicate - Improve significantly; go from bad to good
"Her performance in school picked up"
- turn around - Perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
"The dog picked up the scent"
- catch - Eat by pecking at, like a bird
- peck - Gain or regain energy
"I picked up after a nap"
- perk up, perk, percolate, gain vigor [US], gain vigour [Brit, Cdn]
Derived forms: picks up, picking up, picked up, pickups See also: pick Type of: acceleration, acquaintance, acquire, acquiring, aggregation, ameliorate, arrest warrant, assembling, bench warrant, better, bring out, bring up, buy, clutch, collecting, collection, comprehend, convalesce, corrective, eat, electro-acoustic transducer, elevate, excite, friend, get, get together, get up, getting, improve, lift, lorry [Brit], mechanical device, meet, meliorate, motortruck [N. Amer], perceive, prehend [archaic], purchase, raise, recover, recuperate, restorative, seize, set off, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, touch, transport, truck Part of: conveyance, phonograph, record player, transfer, transferral, transport, transportation Encyclopedia: Pick up Pickup |