a. The act or process of picking up: the pickup and delivery of farm produce.

b. Sports The act of striking or fielding a ball after it has touched the ground: a good pickup and throw from third base.

c. Capacity for acceleration: a sports car with good pickup.

d. Informal An improvement in condition or activity: a pickup in sales.

e. Slang An arrest by a law enforcement officer.

a. Passengers or freight: Taxi drivers expect good tips from airport pickups.

b. Informal A hitchhiker.

c. Slang A stranger with whom casual acquaintance is made, usually in anticipation of sexual relations.

a. A pickup truck.

b. The rotary rake on a piece of machinery, such as a harvester, that picks up windrowed hay or straw.

a. A transducer that converts vibrations, as of a phonograph needle or guitar string, into electrical impulses for subsequent conversion into sound.

b. The tone arm of a record player.

a. The reception of light or sound waves for conversion to electrical impulses.

b. The apparatus used for such reception.

c. A telecast originating outside a studio.

d. The apparatus for transmitting a broadcast from an outside place to the broadcasting station.