pickup   (Sound)

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)