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pickup
has definitions from the fields of physics,transportation,law,writing,sexuality
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[ noun ] (transportation) a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
Synonyms Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)Hardly had Mrs._Roebuck driven off when a rusty pick-up truck , father or grandfather of Senor `` Moriarty 's '' Ford sedan , came screeching to a dust swirling stop , and a brown face appeared , its nose threatened by shards of_what had once been the side window . The car was just about to us , its driver 's fat , solemn face intent on the road ahead , on business , on a family in Sante_Fe - on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human_beings desperately needed rescue . |
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[ noun ] (informal) a warrant to take someone into custody
Examples "put out a pickup on that man" Used in print (Frances and Richard Lockridge, Murder Has...)`` Send_out a pickup on Mrs._Mason and the boy when you 've got enough to go_on '' , Bill said . Related terms |
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[ noun ] anything with restorative powers
Synonyms Examples "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her" Used in print (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)Try that late winter pickup when you are so tired_of cold and snow that you feel you just can't take another day of it . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (sexuality) a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 29827
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[ noun ] the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
Examples : "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays" Related terms |
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[ noun ] mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
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[ noun ] the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
Synonyms Examples "his car has a lot of pickup" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (physics) an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
Synonyms Related terms electro-acoustic_transducer crystal_pickup record_player stylus |
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[ noun ] the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
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