pickup

pick|up1 [ `pıkʌp ] noun *

▸ 1 small truck

▸ 2 someone for sexual relations

▸ 3 power to go faster

▸ 4 improvement/increase

▸ 5 part of record player

▸ 6 when someone/something is collected

1. ) pickup or pickup truck count a truck with an open back and low sides

2. ) count INFORMAL a stranger that you meet with the purpose of having a short sexual relationship with them

3. ) uncount AMERICAN INFORMAL the power of a vehicle to ACCELERATE (=go faster) quickly:

It's a little car, but it has a lot of pickup.

4. ) singular INFORMAL an improvement or increase in something: RECOVERY:

The survey showed a pickup in corporate confidence.

5. ) count the part of a record player that touches the record and sends the sound to the SPEAKERS

6. ) count a place or time at which people, goods, or other things are collected: COLLECTION:

They make deliveries in the mornings and pickups in the afternoons.

pickup

pick|up 2 [ `pıkʌp ] adjective only before noun AMERICAN

a pickup game is played by a group of people who do not always know each other, but suddenly decide they want to play together:

a pickup game of basketball/volleyball/roller hockey