pickup
pronunciation
How to pronounce pickup in British English:
UK [ˈpɪkʌp]
How to pronounce pickup in American English:
US [ ˈpɪkʌp]
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- Noun:
- a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
- a warrant to take someone into custody
- anything with restorative powers
- a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
- the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
- mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
- an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
- the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
- the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
Word Origin
- pickup (n.)
- also pick-up, "that which is picked up," 1848; see pick up (v.). As "act of picking up" from 1882. Meaning "capacity for acceleration" is from 1909; that of "recovery" is from 1916. In reference to a game between informal teams chosen on the spot, from 1905 (as an adjective in this sense by 1936). Meaning "small truck used for light loads," 1937, is shortened from pickup truck (pickup body is attested from 1928). The notion probably being of a vehicle for use to "pick up" (feed, lumber, etc.) and deliver it where it was needed.
Example
- 1. We own a gmc sierra pickup truck that my son , nick , drives .
- 2. Honda 's first effort at a pickup doesn 't get much respect from dyed-in-the-wool truckers .
- 3. A luxury pickup ( or was it a ford f-series with a lincoln badge ? )
- 4. Honda upset the traditional pickup truck orthodoxy when it introduced the unibody ridgeline in 2005 .
- 5. She drove ? There was a pickup waiting for her .