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Pickup

noun

A light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard. Synonym: pickup truck.

A warrant to take someone into custody.

Anything with restorative powers. Synonym: pick-me-up.

A casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships.

The attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration. Synonym: getaway.

Mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge. Synonyms: pickup arm, tone arm.

An electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable. Synonym: cartridge.

The act or process of picking up or collecting from various places.

The act of taking aboard passengers or freight.

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"Pickup" Quotes from Famous Books

... processing agricultural products and light consumer goods. The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and bilateral donors have provided funds to rehabilitate Tanzania's deteriorated economic infrastructure. Growth in 1991-2001 featured a pickup in industrial production and a substantial increase in output of minerals, led by gold. Natural gas exploration in the Rufiji Delta looks promising and production could start by 2002. Recent banking reforms have helped increase private sector growth and investment. ...

— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government

... their heads swung lazily from side to side, very much like snakes, gobbling the yellow grain. In their throats, it was threshed, the chaff bundled and burped aside for pickup by the crawl trucks of a chemical corporation, the kernels quick-dried and blown along into the mighty chests of the machines. There the tireless mills ground the kernels to flour, which was instantly sifted, ...

— Bread Overhead • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... said, "A dead special is a pickup. It ain't carried straight through. It's picked up and laid ...

— Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

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