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Meaning of pickup

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  pickup
      n 1: a light truck with an open body and low sides and a
           tailboard [syn: {pickup}, {pickup truck}]
      2: a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on
         that man"
      3: anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that
         coffee always gave her" [syn: {pickup}, {pick-me-up}]
      4: a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual
         relationships
      5: the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his
         car has a lot of pickup" [syn: {pickup}, {getaway}]
      6: mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that
         carries the cartridge [syn: {tone arm}, {pickup}, {pickup
         arm}]
      7: an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of
         a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
         [syn: {cartridge}, {pickup}]
      8: the act or process of picking up or collecting from various
         places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"
      9: the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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