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A pickup, also spelled 'pick-up,' has a few common meanings. It can be a pickup truck - a vehicle with an open back for carrying things. It can mean the act of picking someone or something up, like 'pickup time is 3pm' at a school, or 'curbside pickup' for food orders. In sports, a 'pickup game' is a casual game people play together without any formal team or plan.
皮卡車；取貨、接送；即興組隊的球賽
組成pick (to choose or lift) + up (in an upward direction, or 'completely')
同家族的字
- pickthe base verb - to choose something or lift it up
原始詞典資料18 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Pickupname
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A surname.
pickupnoun/ˈpɪkʌp/
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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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An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.
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An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.
- This microphone has very weak pickup.
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Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players.
- Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play pickup.
- 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.
- Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pickup, I'm not interested.
- "Sunday Music," a chronicle of a disco pickup and morning after that skillfully parallels Eric's recollections of a recent ex-lover.
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A person successfully approached in this manner for romance or sex.
- "Good Lord! I'm not stopping you from taking on all the pick-ups that come your way."
- But what about the women who still go to bars — are they completely unaffected by these negative connotations? Hardly. No woman wants to think of herself as being an easy pick-up […]
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hobbieslifestylesportsIn various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
- The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.
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video-gamesAn item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.
- Every step of the way you come across absolutely loads of aliens, pick-ups and new and weird obstacles to overcome.
- Enter the graveyard if you want pick-ups, otherwise make a left under the archways to progress. When the pathway ends, you'll see two blocked-off tunnels and a switch between them.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
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governmentpoliticsThe act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate.
- 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.
- That's why the phone at the theater's on automatic pickup.
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broadcastingfilmmediaA 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.
- A computer voice tells her that she is supposed to make a pickup in Griffith Park and deliver it to a Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates franchise in Van Nuys.
- Owner Philip Schaffart said a precoronavirus Tuesday typically brought in $2,500 in revenue. This past Tuesday, he said, that amount dwindled to $300 as his place was open only for pickup and delivery.
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A time during which passengers, such as school children, are picked up.
- These signs are friendly reminders for road users to slow down during drop-off and pick-up.
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The rate at which a motor vehicle picks up speed.
- The Willys-Overland won't be the fastest car on the road or have the best pickup, but it will have a top speed of eighty miles per hour, and its makers are confident that no car in its class will excel it in economy of fuel and upkeep.
- The more highly vaporized the mixture your carburetor delivers, the more power you get, which means higher speed, better pickup, smoother idling, more miles per gallon.
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The condition of being picked up, or taken up; adoption by some entity.
- Newsweek gave it a big write-up, as did many trade journals, including, ^([sic]) Editor and Publisher. And our articles get pickup as far west as the Tombstone Epitaph in Arizona.
- Back then CPI staff demonstrated a reflexivity common to public relations, reflected for instance in Lewis's acknowledgment of the fact that the novelty factor might lead to more pickup.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。