pickup

Other forms of pickup

plural

pickups·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pickup

What does pickup mean?

pickup means "a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pickup?

pickup has 2 syllables: pic-kup. The stress falls on "pic". In IPA it is /ˈpɪˌkʌp/.

What is another word for pickup?

Close synonyms include pickup truck, pick-me-up, getaway, tone arm, pickup arm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pickup a common word?

pickup is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pickup?

14 words rhyme with pickup. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.