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pickup
adjective[ only before noun ]
USinformal(alsopick-up)uk /ˈpɪk.ʌp/ us /ˈpɪk.ʌp/
not officially organized, or involving games like this:
pickup gameThe basketball courts bustled with pickup games.临时拼凑起来的多场比赛在篮球场上热闹地进行着。
pickup basketballHe still plays some pickup basketball with friends.
Six kids were playing pick-up football on the High School field.

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pickup | American Dictionary

pickup
noun
us/ˈpɪkˌʌp/

pickupnoun (GETTING)

[ C ]
the act of getting something or someone:
Trash pickups are on Tuesdays and Fridays.
We arranged the pickup for ten o’clock.

pickupnoun (INCREASE)

[ U ]
an increase in something that has different levels at different times:
Next year is expected to show some pickup in inflation.
[ U ]
Pickup in a vehicle is its power to increase its rate of speed:
The car is easy to turn but it lacks pickup.
pickup
adjective
us/ˈpɪkˌʌp/

pickupadjective (INFORMAL)

(of games) not officially organized:
The basketball courts bustled with pickup games.

pickup | Business English

pickup
noun
(alsopick-up)uk /ˈpɪkʌp/us
[ S ] COMMERCE
an increase or improvement in profits, sales, spending, etc.:
a pickup in sthAnalysts said the pickup in sales was the result of heavy discounting by retailers.
[ C ] TRANSPORT (alsopickup truck)
a small truck with an open part at the back in which goods can be carried:
He pulled up to the site in a pickup full of bricks.
[ C or U ]
the act of collecting goods or people from a particular place:
Recyclable materials can be left on the sidewalk for pickup.
Your purchases can be delivered or collected from the pickup point.

Examples of pickup

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Initially, they were filled with slate dust, so they could be played with ordinary heavyweight pickups.
The cost of material handling to an activity, for example, varies according to the number of material deliveries and pickups to and from that activity.
We determine the magnetic field structure by inserting an array of magnetic pickups and also using magnetic loops set outside the plasma.
Most consumers had bought stereo equipment by then, and equipment manufacturers saw quadraphony as a golden opportunity to cash in on sales of new records, pickups, amplifiers, and loudspeakers.
The survey forms were hand-delivered and introduced to senior staff in each enterprise by trained enumerators and pickup times were arranged directly with these individuals.
Perception is based on the pickup of information, which occurs when purposeful observers actively seek information.
The first experiment in this study, in my estimation, is the most direct examination of pickup of size information by the dorsal system.
The latter condition biased the pickup of eyelevel plane information and yielded the expected overestimation of aperture width.
The manipulator's advantage is that the pickup's linearity can be tested by moving just the pickup and not by changing the magnet settings.
Using an audio oscillator and pickup to induce oscillations, the standing waves produced in a fixed length of two different wires were investigated.
The waves produced by the pickup will produce forced oscillations of the same frequency in the string when incident upon it.
Note that the invariants are seen to contain information allowing the direct pickup of size information without any need to take distance into account.
I call this a process of information pickup that involves the exploratory activity of looking around, getting around, and looking at things.
Double-coil or humbucker pickups were invented as a way to reduce or counter the unwanted ambient hum sounds (known as 60 cycle hum).
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