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# pickup

«pickup» in Mova's school dictionary: **a vehicle with a cabin in front and an open back for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a pickup, pickups); verb phrase (pick up, picks up, picked up, picking up)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pickup (pickup truck) is a vehicle with a cabin in front and an open back for carrying things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#m1)

2) A pickup is the act of collecting someone or something: «school pickup». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#m2)

3) A pickup is a rise or improvement, for example in sales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#m3)

4) (music) A pickup is the part on an electric guitar that turns string sounds into electric signals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#m4)

5) (verb phrase, two words) To pick up is to lift something, to collect someone, or to learn something easily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life «school pickup» is when parents collect children; in stories a pickup truck shows a farm or country setting, especially in the USA, Canada and Australia (where it is also a «ute»). Phrases: pickup time, pickup truck, pick up the phone, pick up a language.

### examples

- Grandpa drives a red pickup truck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#x1)
- Pickup time is half past three. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#x2)
- Can you pick me up after football? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#x3)
- Please pick up your coat from the floor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#x4)
- The pickup on the guitar was broken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#x5)
- She picked up French quickly on holiday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#x6)
- We loaded the hay into the back of the pickup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#x7)
- Safety: wait inside the school until pickup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/#x8)

### note

The noun is one word (a pickup) or hyphenated (pick-up); the verb is two words (pick up). Past form: picked up. In Australia and NZ a pickup truck is often called a «ute».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pickup» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pickup/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.