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/ˈpɪkʌp/
Noun
An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player. In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.
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An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player. Electromagnetic coil receiver of metal string oscillations.
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An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player. The reception of sound, etc. by such a device.
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This microphone has very weak pickup.
Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players.
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Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play pickup.
At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.
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Trevor, like an Aussie outbacker, eats snacks and a pickup meal of bread, cantaloupe, olives, mangoes, and melon.
An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter.
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Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pickup, I'm not interested.
"Sunday Music," a chronicle of a disco pickup and morning after that skillfully parallels Eric's recollections of a recent ex-lover.
A person successfully approached in this manner for romance or sex.
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"Good Lord! I'm not stopping you from taking on all the pick-ups that come your way."
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But what about the women who still go to bars — are they completely unaffected by these negative connotations? Hardly. No woman wants to think of herself as being an easy pick-up […]
Audball's latest pickup didn't seem to care where they were, or anything at all about alimony, palimony, or child support […]
In various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
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The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.
An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.
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Every step of the way you come across absolutely loads of aliens, pick-ups and new and weird obstacles to overcome.
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Enter the graveyard if you want pick-ups, otherwise make a left under the archways to progress. When the pathway ends, you'll see two blocked-off tunnels and a switch between them.
The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate.
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The returns from the election show Apple Party candidate Jane Doe has made a pickup in the district of City West defeating Orange Party Incumbent Joe Smith
The act of answering a telephone.
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That's why the phone at the theater's on automatic pickup.
A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.
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The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle.
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A computer voice tells her that she is supposed to make a pickup in Griffith Park and deliver it to a Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates franchise in Van Nuys.
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Owner Philip Schaffart said a precoronavirus Tuesday typically brought in $2,500 in revenue. This past Tuesday, he said, that amount dwindled to $300 as his place was open only for pickup and delivery.
A time during which passengers, such as school children, are picked up.
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These signs are friendly reminders for road users to slow down during drop-off and pick-up.
The rate at which a motor vehicle picks up speed.
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The Willys-Overland won't be the fastest car on the road or have the best pickup, but it will have a top speed of eighty miles per hour, and its makers are confident that no car in its class will excel it in economy of fuel and upkeep.
The more highly vaporized the mixture your carburetor delivers, the more power you get, which means higher speed, better pickup, smoother idling, more miles per gallon.
The condition of being picked up, or taken up; adoption by some entity.
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Newsweek gave it a big write-up, as did many trade journals, including, ^([sic]) Editor and Publisher. And our articles get pickup as far west as the Tombstone Epitaph in Arizona.
Back then CPI staff demonstrated a reflexivity common to public relations, reflected for instance in Lewis's acknowledgment of the fact that the novelty factor might lead to more pickup.
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a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
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a warrant to take someone into custody
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put out a pickup on that man
anything with restorative powers
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she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her
a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
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the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
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his car has a lot of pickup
mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
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an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
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the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
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garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays
the act of taking aboard passengers or freight