pickup

Universal Words noun 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)