pickup

an improvement, as in health, business conditions, work, production, etc.

Informal.��pick-me-up.

Informal.��a casual, usually unintroduced acquaintance, often one made in hope of a sexual relationship.

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.

the person, freight, or shipment so taken aboard.

Automotive.��

1. capacity for rapid acceleration.

2. acceleration; increase in speed.

3. Also called pickup truck.��a small truck with a low-sided open body, used for deliveries and light hauling.

Baseball.��the act of fielding a ball after it hits the ground.

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.

Radio.��

1. the act of receiving sound waves in the transmitting set in order to change them into electrical waves.

2. a receiving or recording device.

3. the place from which a broadcast is being transmitted.

4. interference.

Television.��

1. the change of light energy into electrical energy in a television camera.

2. camera tube.

3. a telecast made directly from the scene of an action.

a hitchhiker.

Metalworking.��(in the cold-drawing of metal) the adhesion of particles of the metal to the die or plug.

composed of or employing whatever persons are available on a more or less impromptu basis.

using whatever ingredients are handy or available.