Pickup

Pickup, pick-up or pick up may refer to:

• Pickup truck or pick-up truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo area
• Pickup (electromotive power), a device used by electric locomotives, trams, etc. to acquire electric power from overhead wires, third rails, etc.
• Pickup (music technology), an electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument
• Pickup tube, a type of cathode ray tube
• Magnetic pickup, an electromagnetic device returning electrical pulses generated by rotating gears
• Phonograph pickup, a transducer used for the playback of gramophone records on a turntable or phonograph
• Pickup forceps, a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects

• Pick-up notes or anacrusis, note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar
• Pickup group or pickup band, a musical ensemble brought together for only a few performances
• Pick-Up (band), a Ukrainian alternative rock band
• "Pickup" (song), by MacKenzie Porter
• "Pick Up", by Dierks Bentley from Black (Dierks Bentley album)

• Pick-Up (1933 film), a crime film starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft
• Pickup (1951 film), an American film noir directed by Hugo Haas
• Pick-Up (1975 film), an exploitation film directed by Bernard Hirschenson
• Pick up (documentary), a 2005 documentary film directed by Lucia Sanchez
• Pick-up (filmmaking), minor shots filmed after the primary filming of a movie to augment what has already been shot

• Ronald Pickup (1940–2021), British actor
• Thomas Pickup, rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Wakefield Trinity
• Tim Pickup (1948–2021), Australian rugby league footballer
• Shih-Te (fl. 9th century), a Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist poet (literally "Pick-Up" or "Foundling")

• Pick-up (gaming), anything that you collect whilst playing a video game
• Pick-Up, a 1955 novel by Charles Willeford
• Pick Up!, a chocolate-dipped snack bar from Bahlsen
• The Pickup , a 2001 novel by Nadine Gordimer
• Toyota Pickup, a pickup truck marketed in the United States by Toyota
• Isuzu Pickup, a pickup truck marketed in the United States by Isuzu
• Peugeot Pick Up, a pickup truck marketed in Africa as a rebadged Dongfeng Rich

• Pickup artist, a man who is skilled in meeting, attracting, and seducing women
• Pick-up game, a game spontaneously started by a group of players
• Pick-up hockey, an informal type of ice hockey
• Pick-up line, a conversation opener to engage an unfamiliar person for romance or dating

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