| pick-up | |
| —n | |
| 1. | pick-up arm, Also called: tone arm the light balanced arm of a record player that carries the wires from the cartridge to the preamplifier |
| 2. | an electromagnetic transducer that converts the vibrations of the steel strings of an electric guitar or other amplified instrument into electric signals |
| 3. | another name for cartridge |
| 4. | Also called: pick-up truck a small truck with an open body and low sides, used for light deliveries |
| 5. | informal chiefly (US) an ability to accelerate rapidly: this car has good pick-up |
| 6. | informal a casual acquaintance, usually one made with sexual intentions |
| 7. | informal |
| a. a stop to collect passengers, goods, etc | |
| b. the people or things collected | |
| 8. | slang a free ride in a motor vehicle |
| 9. | informal an improvement |
| 10. | slang a pick-me-up |
| —adj | |
| 11. | (US), (Canadian) organized, arranged, or assembled hastily and without planning: a pick-up band; pick-up games |
| —vb | |
| 12. | (tr) to gather up in the hand or hands |
| 13. | (tr) to acquire, obtain, or purchase casually, incidentally, etc |
| 14. | (tr) to catch (a disease): she picked up a bad cold during the weekend |
| 15. | (intr) to improve in health, condition, activity, etc: the market began to pick up |
| 16. | (reflexive) to raise (oneself) after a fall or setback |
| 17. | (tr) to notice or sense: she picked up a change in his attitude |
| 18. | to resume where one left off; return to: we'll pick up after lunch; they picked up the discussion |
| 19. | (tr) to learn gradually or as one goes along |
| 20. | (tr) to take responsibility for paying (a bill): he picked up the bill for dinner |
| 21. | informal (tr) to reprimand: he picked her up on her table manners |
| 22. | (tr) to collect or give a lift to (passengers, hitchhikers, goods, etc) |
| 23. | informal (tr) to become acquainted with, esp with a view to having sexual relations |
| 24. | informal (tr) to arrest |
| 25. | to increase (speed): the cars picked up down the straight |
| 26. | (tr) to receive (electrical signals, a radio signal, sounds, etc), as for transmission or amplification |
| 27. | pick up the pieces to restore a situation to normality after a crisis or collapse |
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| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |