Overview of noun pick_up

The noun pickup has 9 senses

• pickup, pickup truck -- (a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard)


• pickup -- (a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on that man")


• pickup, pick-me-up -- (anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her")


• pickup -- (a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships)


• pickup, getaway -- (the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup")


• tone arm, pickup, pickup arm -- (mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge)


• cartridge, pickup -- (an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable)


• pickup -- (the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays")


• pickup -- (the act of taking aboard passengers or freight)

Overview of verb pick_up

The verb pick up has 16 senses

• pick up, lift up, gather up -- (take and lift upward)


• pick up -- (take up by hand; "He picked up the book and started to read")


• pick up -- (give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway")


• collect, pick up, gather up, call for -- (gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week")


• learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see -- (get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted")


• pick up -- (get in addition, as an increase; "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home")


• collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop -- (take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals")


• pick up -- (buy casually or spontaneously; "I picked up some food for a snack")


• pick up, receive -- (register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal")


• pick up -- (lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile")


• pick up -- (meet someone for sexual purposes; "he always tries to pick up girls in bars")


• elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate -- (fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits")


• turn around, pick up -- (improve significantly; go from bad to good; "Her performance in school picked up")


• catch, pick up -- (perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily; "I caught the aroma of coffee"; "He caught the allusion in her glance"; "ears open to catch every sound"; "The dog picked up the scent"; "Catch a glimpse")


• peck, pick up -- (eat by pecking at, like a bird)


• perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigor -- (gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap")