pickup

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

• Hypernyms: ↑acquiring, ↑getting

• Part Holonyms: ↑transportation, ↑transport, ↑transfer, ↑transferral, ↑conveyance