<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>An improvement, as in health, business conditions, work, production, etc. Informal: pick-me-up.</li><li>Informal: a casual, usually unintroduced acquaintance, often one made in hope of a sexual relationship.</li><li>An instance of stopping for or taking aboard passengers or freight, as by a train, ship, taxicab, etc., especially an instance of taking freight or a shipment of goods onto a truck.</li><li>The person, freight, or shipment so taken aboard: The cab driver had a pickup at the airport who wanted to be driven to the docks.</li><li>Automotive: capacity for rapid acceleration; acceleration; increase in speed.</li><li>Also called pick-up truck: a small truck with a low-sided open body, used for deliveries and light hauling.</li><li>Baseball: the act of fielding a ball after it hits the ground.</li><li>Also called cartridge: a small device attached to the end of a phonograph tone arm that contains a stylus and the mechanism that translates the movement of the stylus in a record groove into a changing electrical voltage.</li><li>Radio: the act of receiving sound waves in the transmitting set in order to change them into electrical waves; a receiving or recording device; the place from which a broadcast is being transmitted.</li><li>Interference (def 4).</li><li>Television: the change of light energy into electrical energy in a television camera; camera tube; a telecast made directly from the scene of an action.</li><li>A hitchhiker.</li><li>Metalworking: (in the cold-drawing of metal) the adhesion of particles of the metal to the die or plug.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Composed of or employing whatever persons are available on a more or less impromptu basis: a pickup game of baseball; a pickup dance band.</li><li>Using whatever ingredients are handy or available: a Sunday night pickup supper.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>