Word Finder - pickup

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An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.

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A pickup truck.

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(usually attributive) Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players.

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At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.

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An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter. See also pick-up line, pick-up joint, pickup artist.

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Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pickup, I'm not interested.

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A person successfully approached in this manner for romance or sex.

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In various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.

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An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.

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The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate. See also gain

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The returns from the election show Apple Party candidate Jane Doe has made a pickup in the district of City West defeating Orange Party Incumbent Joe Smith

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The act of answering a telephone.

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A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.

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The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle.

Signs of the party the night before still remained, from the garbage bags awaiting pickup to one table with two wine glasses still present.

A few minutes later the truck engine started and he backed the Dodge 4x4 pickup out of the garage.

Yes indeed, the neck pickup is white - good spot!

The bridge pickup is calibrated for increased, balanced output.

Traffic was light—nonexistent by eastern standards—made up mostly of Jeeps or pickup trucks, the latter with a dog pacing the back bed in perfect balance.

Standard mileage deduction for business operations of your car, van, pickup, or panel truck is 44.5 cents a mile for all business miles driven.

Speed sensors can be of the Hall Effect type, magnetic pickup or ferrous detection.

Travel Ercan airport is 40 minutes away with free pickup with car rental.

Top of the line was the P46 Deluxe pickup assembly, perhaps the first arrangement to feature four single coil pickup assembly, perhaps the first arrangement to feature four single coil pickups.

If you`re a one humbucking pickup, one control guy, the Enforcer will burn in your bridge.

Supported units reorganize or, if necessary, reconfigure the ammunition they pickup at the ATP for further delivery forward to rearm points.

To tame residual undesirable energy, the stabilizer is placed at the most effective tonearm position, on the pickup itself.

Some shipping services providers are cheaper when shipping from specific store-front or pickup locations from your hometown because they have shipping centers located in your destination city.

It is possible to save on shipping costs when shopping online by having the product shipped to the store for local pickup instead.

Of course, if your hotel is far away from the branch, they may decline the free pickup service.

Have your pickup day and time earlier than you need to have your rental.

After you rent your formal wear or tuxedo, write down your pickup day and time.

Calling a few days before pickup to confirm your reservation is never a bad idea.

You can put in your zip code on the store's website, and it will show you the stores closest to you as well as when the item will be available for pickup at each one.

Flea markets and yard sales are some of the best places to pickup old outdoor chairs.

Several stores offer online digital photo printing for in-store pickup.

Using in-store pickup isn't quite as convenient as having photos delivered to your door, but it still saves time and effort.

For added fun, hitch a trailer filled with hay to a tractor or pickup, and take the teens for a ride through the pasture and woods nearby!

When searching, check other options such as limos specializing in airport delivery and pickup.

Many of the patterns feature several types of trucks such as fire trucks, dump trucks, pickup trucks, and 18-wheelers.

In 1986, Katherine Heigl's brother, Jason, died at age 15 after being thrown from the back of a pickup truck.

Order online and do store pickup to ensure that your store has the item for you, and to avoid paying shipping costs.

While body shape, pickup configuration, type of wood, and brand are important when selecting a guitar, one of the first things people notice when they see a guitar for the first time is its color.

This bass has a 20-fret, tapered maple neck, adjustable bridge, die cast machined heads and a split-coil pickup.

The 22-fret neck is full sized, and the soap bar pickup is high-output and rearing to go.

The electric guitar has at least one pickup, which is essentially a large microphone of sorts that picks up the sound from the strings.

Most electric guitars have more than one pickup, however.

The neck pickup (the one closest to the headstock) produces a warmer, mellow tone.

The bridge pickup (the one furthest from the headstock) produces the brightest, loudest sound.

With a Floyd Rose locking tremolo, 3-way switch pickup switchin, and a birds eye maple fingerboard, the guitar is strong enough to endure the toughest playing.

A single pickup is responsible for the legendary tone of the Red Baron, and the Kluson tuners help ensure the guitar stays in tune through all the bending.

Dimebag's guitar arsenal included mostly Dean Guitars, which he endorsed for years, outfitted with his signature Seymour Duncan pickup, the SH-13 Dimebucker.

The blonde body is made of a single piece of Victorian Ash and comes with a Blues90 pickup for warm, punch sounds.

Fender Princeton Lap Steel - Not to be confused with the Fender Princeton amplifier, this lap steel was manufactured in the 1940s and featured a single pickup, single knob and simple body styling.

The System 62 S.R.T. pickup system means its got enough under the hood to keep up in any situation you find yourself playing it.

This guitar has a contoured body, a vintage-style vibrato, two single coil and one humbucker pickup, and a rosewood fingerboard.

The acoustic pickup is a relatively recent development in the history of the instrument.

The acoustic guitar pickup has one very basic and obvious function -- increasing the volume of your acoustic guitar.

You can, however, use the acoustic guitar pickup for more interesting and experimental purposes than just additional volume.

The pickup allows you to use the same effects pedals as your electric guitar counterparts, enabling similar sonic experimentation.

While you may wish to keep the clean sound, hooking up a pickup gives you the option to make strange and unusual sounds with your guitar -- sounds that no electric guitar could ever hope to make.

The pickup alone won't make your guitar any louder.

It's much easier to get nasty feedback from an acoustic with a pickup than an electric guitar.

Your pickup may be your new favorite guitar toy.

Fortunately, there are a variety of pickup covers that hide the pickup behind something a little more aesthetically pleasing.