Synonyms for pickup
ˈpɪkˌʌppick·up

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1. pickup, pickup trucknoun

   a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard

   Synonyms:
   getaway, tone arm, pickup arm, cartridge, pickup truck, pick-me-up

2. pickupnoun

   a warrant to take someone into custody

   "put out a pickup on that man"

   Synonyms:
   getaway, tone arm, pickup arm, cartridge, pickup truck, pick-me-up

3. pickup, pick-me-upnoun

   anything with restorative powers

   "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"

   Synonyms:
   bracer, pick-me-up, cartridge, pickup truck, pickup arm, getaway, tone arm

4. pickupnoun

   a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

   Synonyms:
   getaway, tone arm, pickup arm, cartridge, pickup truck, pick-me-up

5. pickup, getawaynoun

   the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

   "his car has a lot of pickup"

   Synonyms:
   lam, pick-me-up, cartridge, pickup truck, pickup arm, getaway, tone arm

6. tone arm, pickup, pickup armnoun

   mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge

   Synonyms:
   pickup arm, pick-me-up, cartridge, getaway, pickup truck, tone arm

7. cartridge, pickupnoun

   an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable

   Synonyms:
   magazine, pick-me-up, cartridge, pickup truck, pickup arm, getaway, tone arm

8. pickupnoun

   the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places

   "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"

   Synonyms:
   getaway, tone arm, pickup arm, cartridge, pickup truck, pick-me-up

9. pickupnoun

   the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

   Synonyms:
   getaway, tone arm, pickup arm, cartridge, pickup truck, pick-me-up

Matched Categories

1. • Acceleration
   • Acquaintance
   • Acquiring
   • Bench Warrant
   • Collection
   • Electro-acoustic Transducer
   • Mechanical Device
   • Truck

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1. List of paraphrases for "pickup":

   pick-up, capture, truck, selections, collection, catchment, van

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1. Ali Nur:

   Seven soldiers including their commander died and two others were wounded. They were all onboard a pickup when the bomb exploded.

2. Robert Parkes:

   We have had a pickup in some of the U.S. economic indicators and this development tends to go hand in hand with increasing rate hikes fears, we are not dismissing the potential for short-term volatility, but fundamentally we see the market remaining supported in the longer term.

3. Former US Rep. Joe Walsh:

   Whether he had a gun, a hammer, a bomb, whether he drove a pickup truck through the window of a classroom... He's responsible for that act, not the gun, not the hammer and not the pickup truck.

4. El Camino-style:

   Checkers where known for their durability, and when we realized that, with a body-on-frame platform, we were basically building a truck, a pickup version just made sense.

5. Andre Bakhos:

   There’s concern among investors the Delta variant could reset the clock in terms of the progress we’ve made with COVID-19 and the pickup in the economy.