pickup

noun

1. a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
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"
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"
6. mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
7. an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
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