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单词 pickup
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pickupnoun

uk/ˈpɪk.ʌp/us/ˈpɪk.ʌp/

pickup noun (COLLECTION)

[ C ] the act of picking someone or something up, or the place where it happens:

The pickup point for the long-distance coaches is now in the new bus station.

[ C ] informal a person who is picked up:

The taxi driver said I was the first pickup that he'd had all evening.

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Transferring and transporting objects

  • bearer
  • borne
  • bring
  • budge
  • bus
  • call for sb
  • drop
  • ferry
  • freight
  • road haulage
  • route
  • shuffle
  • spirit
  • tear 1
  • tear sb away
  • tote
  • transfer
  • transport
  • transportation
  • turnaround

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Travellers & visitors

pickup noun (SIGNAL)

[ C ] a device on an electrical musical instrument or a record player that causes sounds to be produced or made louder

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Audio & video equipment

  • audiocassette
  • audiotape
  • box set
  • camcorder
  • cassette
  • cassette recorder
  • compact disc
  • DAT
  • Dolby
  • DVR
  • earbuds
  • ghetto blaster
  • gramophone
  • hi-fi
  • iPod
  • low-fi
  • MD
  • phonograph
  • scratchy
  • stylus

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pickup noun (INCREASE)

[ S ] an increase or improvement:

There's been a pickup in the value of the stock.
have good/bad pickup US

(of a car) to be able/unable to increase speed quickly

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Becoming better

  • alive
  • by/in leaps and bounds idiom
  • come alive idiom
  • come along
  • consolidate
  • move
  • move on to bigger/better things idiom
  • on the up (and up) idiom
  • perk
  • perk up
  • pick
  • rally
  • shape
  • straighten up
  • turn over a new leaf idiom
  • turn sth around
  • turn sth round
  • turn the corner idiom
  • warm
  • warm up

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The engine & engine parts

pickup noun (TRUCK)

a pickup truck

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Trucks, vans & caravans

  • armored car
  • armoured car
  • bakkie
  • bowser
  • bulldozer
  • caravan
  • Dormobile
  • flatbed
  • float
  • heavy goods vehicle
  • horse trailer
  • JCB
  • juggernaut
  • lorry
  • milk truck
  • paddy wagon
  • pantechnicon
  • snowplough
  • tender
  • traction engine

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pickupadjective [ only before noun ]

uk/ˈpɪk.ʌp/us/ˈpɪk.ʌp/US informal

A pickup game is one that has not been officially organized:

The basketball courts bustled with pickup games.

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Sports & games generally

  • athletics
  • contact sport
  • defensive
  • extreme sport
  • free running
  • game
  • high jinks
  • kabaddi
  • parkour
  • play
  • sport
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