Definitions for pickup
pickup
pick·up
Spelling: [pik-uhp]
IPA: /ˈpɪkˌʌp/
Pickup is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 46 anagrams from letters in pickup (cikppu).
Definitions for pickup
noun
-
an improvement, as in health, business conditions, work, production, etc.
-
Informal. pick-me-up.
-
Informal. a casual, usually unintroduced acquaintance, often one made in hope of a sexual relationship.
-
an instance of stopping for or taking aboard passengers or freight, as by a train, ship, taxicab, etc., especially an instance of taking freight or a shipment of goods onto a truck.
-
the person, freight, or shipment so taken aboard:
-
Automotive.
capacity for rapid acceleration.
acceleration; increase in speed.
Also called pickup truck. a small truck with a low-sided open body, used for deliveries and light hauling.
-
Baseball. the act of fielding a ball after it hits the ground.
-
Also called cartridge. a small device attached to the end of a phonograph tone arm that contains a stylus and the mechanism that translates the movement of the stylus in a record groove into a changing electrical voltage.
-
Radio.
the act of receiving sound waves in the transmitting set in order to change them into electrical waves.
a receiving or recording device.
the place from which a broadcast is being transmitted.
interference (def 4).
-
Television.
the change of light energy into electrical energy in a television camera.
camera tube.
a telecast made directly from the scene of an action.
-
a hitchhiker.
-
Metalworking. (in the cold-drawing of metal) the adhesion of particles of the metal to the die or plug.
adjective
-
composed of or employing whatever persons are available on a more or less impromptu basis:
-
using whatever ingredients are handy or available:
Origin of pickup
First recorded in 1855-60; noun use of verb phrase pick up
Examples for pickup
He loaded both bodies into the back of his white Toyota pickup truck.
He was still working on his pickup technique, and felt there was nothing for him at university.
And must I also pickup such worthless luggage in my travels?
Barney climbed into the pickup and drove it around to the tractor shed.
Byrd was a 49-year-old black man walking home from a party when three white men in a Ford pickup offered him a ride.
His father snapped on the screen and pickup of the jeep that was standing nearby.
The Cubans pulled up to the outpost and crammed the survivors into an open-body jeep and a pickup truck.
But some of his pickup methods might actually be criminal, according to the state of Nevada.
He saw it again on screen from a pickup atop the central tower.
He swung the jeep to get the crowd in the pickup, explaining who they were.