Pickup(s), pick-up, or pick up may refer to:
Film
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''Pick-Up'' (1933 film), a crime film starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft
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''Pickup'' (1951 film), an American film noir directed by Hugo Haas
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''Pick-Up'' (1975 film), an exploitation film directed by Bernard Hirschenson
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''Pick up'' (documentary), a 2005 documentary film directed by
Lucia Sanchez
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Pick-up (filmmaking), minor shots filmed after the primary filming of a movie to augment what has already been shot
* ''Pickups'', a 2017 British film directed by
Jamie Thraves
Music
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Pick-up notes or anacrusis, note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar
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Pickup group or pickup band, a musical ensemble brought together for only a few performances
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Pick-Up (band), a Ukrainian alternative rock band
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"Pickup" (song), by MacKenzie Porter
*"Pick Up", by Dierks Bentley from
''Black'' (Dierks Bentley album)
People
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Ronald Pickup (1940–2021), British actor
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Thomas Pickup, rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Wakefield Trinity
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Tim Pickup (1948–2021), Australian rugby league footballer
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Shih-Te (fl. 9th century), a Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist poet (literally "Pick-Up" or "Foundling")
Technology
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Magnetic pickup
A pickup is an electronic device that converts energy from one form to another that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these t ...
, an electromagnetic device returning electrical pulses generated by rotating gears
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Phonograph pickup, a transducer used for the playback of gramophone records on a turntable or phonograph
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Pickup forceps, a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects
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Pickup truck
A pickup truck or pickup is a Truck_classification#Table_of_US_GVWR_classifications, light or medium duty truck that has an enclosed cabin (truck), cabin, and a back end made up of a cargo bed that is enclosed by three low walls with no roof (th ...
or pick-up truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo area
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Toyota Pickup, a pickup truck marketed in the United States by Toyota
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Isuzu Pickup, a pickup truck marketed in the United States by Isuzu
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Peugeot Pick Up, a pickup truck marketed in Africa as a rebadged Dongfeng Rich
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Pickup (electromotive power), a device used by electric locomotives, trams, etc. to acquire electric power from overhead wires, third rails, etc.
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Pickup (music technology)
A pickup is an electronic device that converts energy from one form to another that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to ...
, an electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument
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Pickup tube, a type of cathode ray tube
Other uses
* Pick Up!, a chocolate-dipped snack bar from
Bahlsen
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Pick-up (gaming), anything that you collect whilst playing a video game
* ''Pick-Up'', a 1955 novel by
Charles Willeford
Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography and literary criticism, Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective fiction, detective Hoke ...
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The Pickup
''The Pickup'' is a 2001 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It tells the story of a couple: Julie Summers, a white woman from a financially secure family, and Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant in South Africa. After Abdu's visa is ref ...
'', a 2001 novel by Nadine Gordimer
See also
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Pickup artist, a man who is skilled in meeting, attracting, and seducing women
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Pick-up game, a game spontaneously started by a group of players
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Pick-up hockey, an informal type of ice hockey
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Pick-up line, a conversation opener to engage an unfamiliar person for romance or dating
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