pick|up

pick|up: pick|up «PIHK _UHP», noun, adjective.

–n.

1. the act of picking up: »the daily pickup of mail.

2. Informal. the act or fact of getting better; improvement: »a pickup in his health, a pickup in business.

3. the act or fact of going faster; increase in speed; acceleration: »People who must drive a lot know the big difference a gasoline can make in pickup, economy and all around smooth operation (Maclean's).

4. Informal. a) an acquaintance made without an introduction, especially an acquaintance of the opposite sex. b) a person who is picked up by a vehicle, such as a passenger or hitchhiker: »The school bus has a dozen pickups every morning.

5. something obtained or secured when or as chance offers, such as a bargain or a hurried meal: »While we were having our pickup…the children came down and settled around the table (New Yorker).

6. Sports. a catching (or sometimes hitting) of a ball very soon after it has bounced on the ground: »Two snappy double-plays, the first that started with a dazzling pickup by Sam Dente, helped the youngster (New York Times).

7. Radio. a) the reception of sound waves in the transmitter and their conversion into electrical waves for broadcasting: »The short-wave pickups…lost a good deal of their value when nobody had anything very special to say (New York Times).
b) the apparatus for such reception. c) the place from which a broadcast is transmitted: »The network said the program would originate at thirteen pickup points from the Atlantic to the Pacific (New York Times).
d) the electrical system for connecting a program originating outside the studio to the broadcasting station.

8. Television. a) the reception of images in the transmitter and their conversion into electrical waves for broadcasting: »A new measuring circuit…simplifies range changing and reduces stray pickup (Scientific American).
b) the apparatus that does this.

9. a device that transforms into electric current the vibrations set up in a phonograph needle by variations in the grooves of a phonograph record, the current being typically very weak, capable in itself only of serving as a signal to the amplifier: »a stereo pickup.

10. = pickup truck. (Cf. ↑pickup truck)

–adj.

of or having to do with an informal game or group that is assembled on the spot or for one time only: »Small groups of correspondents—seldom more than enough for a pickup baseball game (A. J. Liebling).

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