[pik-uhp] 
| 1. | an improvement, as in health, business conditions, work, production, etc. |
| 2. | Informal. pick-me-up. |
| 3. | Informal. a casual, usually unintroduced acquaintance, often one made in hope of a sexual relationship. |
| 4. | an instance of stopping for or taking aboard passengers or freight, as by a train, ship, taxicab, etc., esp. an instance of taking freight or a shipment of goods onto a truck. |
| 5. | the person, freight, or shipment so taken aboard: The cab driver had a pickup at the airport who wanted to be driven to the docks. |
| 6. | Automotive.
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| 7. | Baseball. the act of fielding a ball after it hits the ground. |
| 8. | 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. |
| 9. | Radio.
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| 10. | Television.
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| 11. | a hitchhiker. |
| 12. | Metalworking. (in the cold-drawing of metal) the adhesion of particles of the metal to the die or plug. |
| 13. | composed of or employing whatever persons are available on a more or less impromptu basis: a pickup game of baseball; a pickup dance band. |
| 14. | using whatever ingredients are handy or available: a Sunday night pickup supper. |
| pickup truck n. A light truck with an open body and low sides. |
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