Pickup | Mean of pickup in English Dictionary

/ˈpɪkˌʌp/

• Noun
• a small truck that has an open back with low sides
• the act of going somewhere to get a person or thing that you will then take to another place
1. The fee pays for garbage/trash pickup.
2. Is this order for pickup or delivery? [=do you want to come and get the order yourself, or do you want us to deliver the order to you?]
3. Your pizza will be ready for pickup [=you can pick up your pizza] in 20 minutes.
4. The school bus was late for its afternoon pickup.
5. The truck is scheduled to make a pickup today.
• an increase in activity
1. They saw a pickup in business during the last quarter.
2. Several of our stores have reported a pickup in orders.
3. a pickup in consumer spending

• the ability of a vehicle to increase speed quickly
1. The car corners well and has good pickup. [=(more formally) acceleration]
• a person you meet and have a usually brief sexual relationship with
1. He looked for pickups in singles bars.
• a device on a musical instrument (such as an electric guitar) that makes sounds louder by changing them into electrical signals
1. a guitar pickup
• a player who becomes part of a team after being obtained from another team
1. He joined the team as a free agent pickup last summer.
• organized informally with people who are available or nearby at the time
1. He plays with pickup bands at nightclubs.
2. a pickup football game
3. playing pickup basketball
• of or relating to the act of trying to meet strangers in order to have brief sexual relationships with them
1. What's the pickup scene like in this city?
2. He tried using one of his pickup lines [=a comment used to start a conversation with someone you are attracted to] on her, but it didn't work.