Meaning of PICKUP

Pronunciation:			'pik`up
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	Definition:		[n]  the act of taking aboard passengers or freight [n]  the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays" [n]  an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable [n]  a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard [n]  anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her" [n]  mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge [n]  the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup" [n]  (informal) a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on that man" [n]  a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
	Synonyms:		cartridge, getaway, pick-me-up, pickup arm, pickup truck, tone arm
	See Also:		acceleration, acquaintance, acquiring, aggregation, arrest warrant, assembling, bench warrant, collecting, collection, conveyance, corrective, crystal pickup, electro-acoustic transducer, friend, garbage collection, garbage pickup, getting, mechanical device, motortruck, phonograph, record player, restorative, stylus, transfer, transferral, transportation, trash collection, trash pickup, truck
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		accelerando, acceleration, acquaintance, advance, advancement, advocate, aggravation, airing, alter ego, amelioration, amendment, apprehension, arrestation, arrestment, ascent, audio sound system, audiophile, backer, bad woman, baggage, beefing-up, best friend, bettering, betterment, binaural system, bitch, bitch box, blowing up, blowup, booking, boost, bosom friend, bracer, broad, brother, bullhorn, cartridge, casual acquaintance, ceramic pickup, changer, chippy, clitoromaniac, close acquaintance, close friend, cocotte, concentration, condensation, confidant, confidante, consolidation, crystal pickup, deepening, derived four-channel system, detention, discrete four-channel system, drab, drive, easy lay, easy woman, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, familiar, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, floozy, four-channel stereo system, frail sister, friend, furtherance, getaway, Gramophone, Great Leap Forward, grisette, harridan, headway, heating-up, heightening, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, hussy, hysteromaniac, impetus, improvement, information explosion, inseparable friend, intensification, intercom, intercommunication system, intimate, jade, Jezebel, joyride, jukebox, lift, loose woman, lover, magnetic pickup, magnification, melioration, mend, mending, mobile camera, monaural system, mono, nab, needle, neighbor, nickelodeon, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, other self, outside pickup, PA, PA system, partisan, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pick-me-up, pinch, population explosion, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, quean, quickening, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, record player, recovery, redoubling, refresher, reinforcement, remote pickup, repository, restoration, revival, reviver, ride, rise, slut, sound reproduction system, sound truck, speedup, spin, spot pickup, squawk box, step-up, stereo, strengthening, strumpet, stylus, Sunday drive, supporter, sympathizer, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tart, telecamera, television camera, thrust, tightening, tone arm, transcription turntable, trollop, trull, turntable, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, uteromaniac, Victrola, wanton, well-wisher, wench, whirl, whore