pickup

1. 1.

   a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard

   Synonymspickup truck

   Broadertruck

   Narrowertechnical
2. 2.

   a warrant to take someone into custody

   “put out a pickup on that man”

   Broaderbench warrant

   colloquialism

3. 3.

   anything with restorative powers

   “she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her”

   Synonymspick-me-up

   Broadercorrective
4. 4.

   a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

   Broaderacquaintance
5. 5.

   the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

   “his car has a lot of pickup”

   Synonymsgetaway

   Broaderacceleration
6. 6.

   mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge

   Synonymstone armpickup arm

   Broadermechanical device

   Part ofrecord player
7. 7.

   an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable

   Synonymscartridge

   Broaderelectro-acoustic transducer

   Narrowercrystal pickup

   Part ofrecord player

   Partsstylus
8. 8.

   the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places

   “garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays”

   Broadercollection

   Narrowergarbage collection
9. 9.

   the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

   Broaderacquiring

   Part oftransportation

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.