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Definition of pickup noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

pickup

noun
pickup pronunciation English ˈpɪkʌp pickup pronunciation American ˈpɪkʌp
 
1 (also pickup 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)