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   Pick·up

   /ˈpikˌəp/

   

   noun

   • 1. a small truck with an enclosed cab and open back. Similar pickup truckutility vehicle/truckmonster truckbakkieinformal:ute
   • 2. an act of collecting a person or goods, especially in a vehicle: "travel by bus from your local pickup point to your hotel"
   • 3. a casual encounter with someone, with a view to having sex: informal "most people met through casual pickups"
   • ▪ a person encountered with a view to having sex.
   • 4. an improvement in an economic indicator: "signs of a pickup in demand" Similar improvementrecoveryrevivalupturnupswingrallycomebackresurgencerenewalreinvigorationadvancementbettermenta turn for the betterOpposite slumpdownturn
   • 5. a device that produces an electrical signal in response to some other kind of signal or change.
   • ▪ the cartridge of a record player, carrying the stylus.
   • ▪ a device on a musical instrument, particularly an electric guitar, that converts string vibrations into electrical signals for amplification.
   • 6. the reception of signals, especially interference or noise, by electrical apparatus: "this microphone helps reduce the pickup of background noise"
   • 7. a series of introductory notes leading into the opening part of a tune.
   • 8. a semicircular loop of metal for guiding the line back on to the spool as it is reeled in.

   adjective

   • 1. informal and spontaneous: informal North American "six players had started a full-court pickup basketball game"

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