1 (alsopickup truck)[countable]a vehicle with low sides and no roof at the back used, for example, by farmers2[countable]a person somebody meets for the first time, for example in a bar, with whom they start a sexual relationshipcasual pickups3[countable]pickup (in something)an improvementa pickup in the housing market4[uncountable, countable]an occasion when somebody/something is collectedGoods are delivered not later than noon on the day after pickup.5[countable]the part of a record player or musical instrument that changes electrical signals into sound, or sound into electrical signals6[uncountable] (North American English) a vehicle's ability to accelerate (= increase in speed)