- an improvement, as in health, business conditions, work, production, etc.
- pick-me-up.
- a casual, usually unintroduced acquaintance, often one made in hope of a sexual relationship.
- an instance of stopping for or taking aboard passengers or freight, as by a train, ship, taxicab, etc., especially an instance of taking freight or a shipment of goods onto a truck.
- 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.
- Automotive.
- capacity for rapid acceleration.
- acceleration; increase in speed.
- a small truck with a low-sided open body, used for deliveries and light hauling.
- the act of fielding a ball after it hits the ground.
- 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.
- Radio.
- the act of receiving sound waves in the transmitting set in order to change them into electrical waves.
- a receiving or recording device.
- the place from which a broadcast is being transmitted.
- interference (def. 4).
- Television.
- the change of light energy into electrical energy in a television camera.
- camera tube.
- a telecast made directly from the scene of an action.
- a hitchhiker.
- (in the cold-drawing of metal) the adhesion of particles of the metal to the die or plug.
- composed of or employing whatever persons are available on a more or less impromptu basis: a pickup game of baseball; a pickup dance band.
- using whatever ingredients are handy or available: a Sunday night pickup supper.
- the light balanced arm of a record player that carries the wires from the cartridge to the preamplifier
- an electromagnetic transducer that converts the vibrations of the steel strings of an electric guitar or other amplified instrument into electric signals
- another name for cartridge (def. 3)
- a small truck with an open body and low sides, used for light deliveries
- an ability to accelerate rapidly
- a casual acquaintance, usually one made with sexual intentions
- informal
- a stop to collect passengers, goods, etc
- the people or things collected
- a free ride in a motor vehicle
- an improvement
- a pick-me-up
- organized, arranged, or assembled hastily and without planning
- to gather up in the hand or hands
- to acquire, obtain, or purchase casually, incidentally, etc
- to catch (a disease)
- to improve in health, condition, activity, etc
- to raise (oneself) after a fall or setback
- to notice or sense
- to resume where one left off; return to
- to learn gradually or as one goes along
- to take responsibility for paying (a bill)
- to reprimand
- to collect or give a lift to (passengers, hitchhikers, goods, etc)
- to become acquainted with, esp with a view to having sexual relations
- to arrest
- to increase (speed)
- to receive (electrical signals, a radio signal, sounds, etc), as for transmission or amplification
- to restore a situation to normality after a crisis or collapse
