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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pickup \Pick"up\, or Pick-up \Pick"-up`\, n. [Colloq., Cant, or Slang] Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground. That which picks up; specif.: (Elec.) same as Brush b. One that is picked ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pick-up , "that which is picked up," 1848; see pick up (v.). As "act of picking up" from 1882. Meaning "capacity for acceleration" is from 1909; that of "recovery" is from 1916. In reference to a game between informal teams chosen on the spot, from ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pickup is a 1951 American film noir written and directed by Czech actor and filmmaker Hugo Haas . It was the first American film by Haas, a refugee from Nazi Europe, who went on to make a series of gloomy noirs about doomed middle-aged men led astray by ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard [syn: pickup truck ] a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on that man" anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her" [syn: pick-me-up ...
Usage examples of pickup.
When he accumulated a small armload, he set it in a prominent place for pickup later, then headed off, carrying only the travois poles.
There were still long lines of civilian autos, pickups, minivans, and SUVs inching slowly south toward the junction with Interstate 25, the main road to Albuquerque.
Pickup teams from the other bars get together, we have a game every now and again.
After supper they drove into the Bitterroot Mountains, where Lute picked his careful way up a primitive road, his friend following in a pickup.
Pickups and old Chevys, boat like Buicks and battered Jeeps began parking along the dirt shoulder abutting the ditch outside Bonita Vista and quickly became so numerous that succeeding vehicles were forced to spread out into the middle of the street.
Beyond the pool of light cast by the tall yardlight next to the broodmare barn, a dark-colored pickup truck with a two-horse trailer in tow was parked.
Newly waxed Porsches, dented Mazdas, Chevy pickups, stretch Caddies with dark glass and TV antennas-who are these guys?
Amadeo start his old pickup, and heard the wheels with the tire chains spin in the snow, and then it went off down Camino Tuerto, sounding very loud without its muffler.
None of the villagers possessed a motor vehicle, but a few, mostly pickup trucks, wandered through Chiriqui almost every day.
Ask about pickups of single males on Sunset between Doheny and La Cienega and side sts.
As Travis pulled the Hummer in beside the rusting hulk of a pickup truck, a dog I later learned was a black-and-tan coonhound lifted his head and bounded down the steps.
Gabe gestured with his head, this time toward the engineless body of an old pickup that lay almost hidden among the trees on the hillside behind the chicken coop.
A place where any and all off-duty lawmen were welcome to sit on the tailgates of pickup trucks, drink beer, eat fajitas and shoot the breeze.
He leaned closer, bending over her, and she realized that he was leaning in through the door of a vehicle, a truck, a pickup truck, realized that she was on the floor, in the front passenger footwell, wedged in, and he was trying to get her out.
Lieutenant Glasser but the last two members of the team are with me in the pickup truck.