pickup
noun /ˈpɪkʌp/
/ˈpɪkʌp/
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(also pickup truck)[countable] a vehicle with low sides and no roof at the back used, for example, by farmersTopics Transport by car or lorryc2- [countable] a person somebody meets for the first time, for example in a bar, with whom they start a sexual relationship
- casual pickups
- [countable] pickup (in something) an improvement
- a pickup in the housing market
- [uncountable, countable] an occasion when somebody/something is collected
- Goods are delivered not later than noon on the day after pickup.
- [countable] the part of a record player or musical instrument that changes electrical signals into sound, or sound into electrical signals
- [uncountable] (North American English) a vehicle’s ability to accelerate (= increase in speed)