pickup truck

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pickup/ˈpɪkʌp/

▶noun

• 1 (also pickup truck) a small van or truck with low sides.

• 2 an act of picking up or collecting a person or goods.

• 3 an improvement, especially in an economy.

• 4 a device on an electric guitar which converts sound vibrations into electrical signals for amplification.

• 5 the cartridge of a record player, carrying the stylus.

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

• 7 Fishing a semicircular loop of metal for guiding the line back on to the spool as it is reeled in.

▶adjective N. Amer. informal (of a game) informal and spontaneous.