1. the pickup and delivery of farm produce. 2. a good pickup and throw from third base. 3. a sports car with good pickup. 4. a pickup in sales. 5. An arrest by a law enforcement officer. 6. One that is picked up, especially: 7. Taxi drivers expect good tips from airport pickups. 8. A hitchhiker. 9. A stranger with whom casual acquaintance is made, usually in anticipation of sexual relations. 10. A balance brought forward. 11. Previous journalistic copy to which succeeding copy is added. 12. The unstressed note or notes introductory to a phrase or composition. 13. One that picks up, especially: 14. A pickup truck. 15. The rotary rake on a piece of machinery, such as a harvester, that picks up windrowed hay or straw. 16. A device that converts the oscillations of a phonograph needle into electrical impulses for subsequent conversion into sound. 17. The tone arm of a record player. 18. The reception of light or sound waves for conversion to electrical impulses. 19. The apparatus used for such reception. 20. A telecast originating outside a studio. 21. The apparatus for transmitting a broadcast from an outside place to the broadcasting station. 22. a pickup orchestra; a pickup baseball game.
