1 (also pickup truck) [C] a motor vehicle with low sides and no roof at the back used, for example, by farmers
2 [C] a person sb meets for the first time, for example in a bar, with whom they start a sexual relationship:
casual pickups
3 [C] ~ (in sth) an improvement:
a pickup in the housing market
4 [U,C] an occasion when sb/sth is collected:
Goods are delivered not later than noon on the day after pickup.
5 [C] the part of a record player or musical instrument that changes electrical signals into sound, or sound into electrical signals
6 [U] (AmE) a vehicle's ability to ACCELERATE (= increase in speed)
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is pickup a noun, verb, or something else?
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