pickup

noun

• 1 (also pickup truck) a small truck with an enclosed cab and open back.

• 2an act of collecting a person or goods, especially in a vehicle:curbside pickup [as modifier]:travel by bus from your local pickup point to your hotel

• 3the reception of signals, especially interference or noise, by electrical apparatus.

• 4 informal a casual encounter with someone, with a view to having sexual intercourse.
• a person encountered with a view to having sexual intercourse.

• 5an improvement in an economic indicator:signs of a pickup in demand

• 6a device that produces an electrical signal in response to some other kind of signal or change, in particular.
• the cartridge of a record player, carrying the stylus.
• a device on a musical instrument, particularly an electric guitar, that converts string vibrations into electrical signals for amplification.

• 7 Music a series of introductory notes leading into the opening part of a tune.

• 8 Fishing a semicircular loop of metal for guiding the line back onto the spool as it is reeled in.

adjective

• informal and spontaneous:six players had started a full-court pickup basketball game