pickup
[noun]
Synonyms: arrest, apprehension, arrestation, arrestment, bust, detention, nab, pinch

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Related Words: booking

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

pick·up (pĭkp)
n.
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■ The act or process of picking up:
the pickup and delivery of farm produce.
■ Sports. The act of striking or fielding a ball after it has touched the ground:
a good pickup and throw from third base.
■ Capacity for acceleration:
a sports car with good pickup.
■ Informal. An improvement in condition or activity:
a pickup in sales.
■ Slang. An arrest by a law enforcement officer.
► One that is picked up, especially:
■ Passengers or freight:
Taxi drivers expect good tips from airport pickups.
■ Informal. A hitchhiker.
■ Slang. A stranger with whom casual acquaintance is made, usually in anticipation of sexual relations.
► Accounting. A balance brought forward.
► Previous journalistic copy to which succeeding copy is added.
► Music. See upbeat.
► One that picks up, especially:
■ A pickup truck.
■ The rotary rake on a piece of machinery, such as a harvester, that picks up windrowed hay or straw.
► Electronics.
■ A device that converts the oscillations of a phonograph needle into electrical impulses for subsequent conversion into sound.
■ The tone arm of a record player.
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■ The reception of light or sound waves for conversion to electrical impulses.
■ The apparatus used for such reception.
■ A telecast originating outside a studio.
■ The apparatus for transmitting a broadcast from an outside place to the broadcasting station.
adj.
Being, relating to, or involving a group of people assembled informally for a temporary purpose:
a pickup orchestra; a pickup baseball game.

[TahlilGaran] American Dictionary ▲

pickup
n., (stress on "pick")
1. A rugged, small truck.
When he got into the lumber business, Max traded in his comfortable two-door sedan for a pickup.
2. Scheduled meeting in order to transfer merchandise or stolen goods.
The pickup goes down at 7 A.M. every day by the loading dock.
The dope pushers usually make their pickup on Rush Street.
3. A person who is easy to persuade to go home with the suitor.
Sue is said to be an easy pickup.

[TahlilGaran] English Idioms Dictionary ▲