Pickup, pick-up or pick up may refer to:
Technology
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Pickup truck
A pickup truck or pickup is a light-duty truck that has an enclosed cabin, and a back end made up of a cargo bed that is enclosed by three low walls with no roof (this cargo bed back end sometimes consists of a tailgate and removable covering) ...
or pick-up truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo area
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Pickup (music technology)
A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an ins ...
, an electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument
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Pickup tube, a type of cathode ray tube
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Magnetic pickup, an electromagnetic device returning electrical pulses generated by rotating gears
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Phonograph pickup
A magnetic cartridge, more commonly called a phonograph cartridge or phono cartridge or (colloquially) a pickup, is an electromechanical transducer that is used to play records on a turntable.
The cartridge contains a removable or permanent ...
, a transducer used for the playback of gramophone records on a turntable or phonograph
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Pickup forceps
Forceps (plural forceps or considered a plural noun without a singular, often a pair of forceps; the Latin plural ''forcipes'' is no longer recorded in most dictionaries) are a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects. Fo ...
, a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects
Music
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Pick-up notes
In poetic and musical meter, and by analogy in publishing, an anacrusis (from , , literally: 'pushing up', plural ''anacruses'') is a brief introduction (distinct from a literary or musical introduction, foreword, or preface).
It is a set of sy ...
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)
PICK-UP is a Ukrainian alternative rock band from Kyiv, in existence since 2005. Members of the group are Kostya Leontovich (vocals, guitar), Michael Orlov (bass guitar), Danil Kalashnikov(drums).
The group has developed a so-called "PICK-UP Sou ...
, a Ukrainian alternative rock band
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"Pickup" (song), by MacKenzie Porter
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)
In filmmaking, a pick-up is a small, relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment footage already shot. When entire scenes are redone, it is referred to as a re-shoot or additional photography.
On set
During principal phot ...
, minor shots filmed after the primary filming of a movie to augment what has already been shot
People
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Ronald Pickup
Ronald Alfred Pickup (7 June 1940 – 24 February 2021) was an English actor. He was active in television, film, and theatre, beginning with a 1964 appearance in '' Doctor Who''. Theatre critic Michael Billington described him as "a terrific st ...
(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
Timothy Alexander Pickup (6 October 1948 – 7 June 2021) was an Australian Rugby League footballer for the North Sydney Bears, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, New South Wales and Australian national side in the 1970s. He played Rugby Union f ...
(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")
Other uses
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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
See also
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Pickup artist
Pickup artists (PUA), self-identified as dating coaches, the seduction community or the pickup community, is a movement of men (or women) whose goal is seduction and sexual success. The community exists through Internet newsletters and blogs, mar ...
, a man who is skilled in meeting, attracting, and seducing women
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Pick-up game
In sports and video games, a pick-up game (also known as a ''scratch game'' or ''PUG'') is a game that has been spontaneously started by a group of players. Players are generally invited to show up beforehand, but unlike exhibition games there is ...
, 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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