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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..
Franklin is beside himself, revving up the engine in the pickup.
I kept my window rolled up, eyes on the road, probably making the pickup man angrier with my silence.
Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play pickup.
At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.
Trevor, like an Aussie outbacker, eats snacks and a pickup meal of bread, cantaloupe, olives, mangoes, and melon.
Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pickup, I'm not interested.
"Good Lord! I'm not stopping you from taking on all the pick-ups that come your way."
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 […]
Use pick up when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pick up means An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player..
Common synonyms include getaway, pick-me-up, pickup truck, tone arm.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Franklin is beside himself, revving up the engine in the pickup.
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