noun
1. a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard (Freq. 2)
• Syn: ↑pickup truck
• Hypernyms: ↑truck, ↑motortruck
• Hyponyms: ↑technical
2. a warrant to take someone into custody (Freq. 1)
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put out a pickup on that man
• Derivationally related forms: ↑pick up
• Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism
• Hypernyms: ↑bench warrant, ↑arrest warrant
3. anything with restorative powers (Freq. 1)
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she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her
• Syn: ↑pick-me-up
• Derivationally related forms: ↑pick up
• Hypernyms: ↑corrective, ↑restorative
4. a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
• Derivationally related forms: ↑pick up
• Hypernyms: ↑acquaintance, ↑friend
5. mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
• Syn: ↑tone arm, ↑pickup arm
• Hypernyms: ↑mechanical device
• Part Holonyms: ↑record player, ↑phonograph
6. an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
• Syn: ↑cartridge
• Hypernyms: ↑electro-acoustic transducer
• Hyponyms: ↑crystal pickup
• Part Holonyms: ↑record player, ↑phonograph
• Part Meronyms: ↑stylus
7. the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
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his car has a lot of pickup
• Syn: ↑getaway
• Hypernyms: ↑acceleration
8. the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
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garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays
• Derivationally related forms: ↑pick up
• Hypernyms: ↑collection, ↑collecting, ↑assembling, ↑aggregation
• Hyponyms: ↑garbage collection, ↑garbage pickup, ↑trash collection, ↑trash pickup
9. the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
• Derivationally related forms: ↑pick up
• Part Holonyms: ↑transportation, ↑transport, ↑transfer, ↑transferral, ↑conveyance
Useful english dictionary. 2012.