Pickup - Definition
pickup
n 1: a light truck with an open body and low sides and a
tailboard [syn: pickup, pickup truck]
2: a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on
that man"
3: anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that
coffee always gave her" [syn: pickup, pick-me-up]
4: a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual
relationships
5: the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his
car has a lot of pickup" [syn: pickup, getaway]
6: mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that
carries the cartridge [syn: tone arm, pickup, pickup
arm]
7: 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, pickup]
8: the act or process of picking up or collecting from various
places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"
9: the act of taking aboard passengers or freight