pickup

Meanings

• a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
• a warrant to take someone into custody
  • "put out a pickup on that man"
• anything with restorative powers
  • "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"
• a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
• the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
  • "his car has a lot of pickup"
• 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
  • "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"
• the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

Synonyms

cartridge, getaway, pick-me-up, pickup arm, pickup truck, tone arm