Pickup, pick-up or pick up may refer to:

Technology

Pickup truck A pickup truck or pickup is a light-duty truck that has an enclosed cabin, and a back end made up of a cargo bed that is enclosed by three low walls with no roof (this cargo bed back end sometimes consists of a tailgate and removable covering) ...

or pick-up truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo area *

Pickup (music technology) A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instru ...

, an electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument * Pickup tube, a type of cathode ray tube *

Magnetic pickup A pickup is a transducer that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to an electrical signal that is amplified using an instru ...

, an electromagnetic device returning electrical pulses generated by rotating gears *

Phonograph pickup A magnetic cartridge, more commonly called a phonograph cartridge or phono cartridge or (colloquially) a pickup, is an electromechanical transducer that is used to play records on a turntable. The cartridge contains a removable or permanent ...

, a transducer used for the playback of gramophone records on a turntable or phonograph * Pickup forceps, a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects

Music

Pick-up notes In poetic and musical meter, and by analogy in publishing, an anacrusis (from , , literally: 'pushing up', plural ''anacruses'') is a brief introduction (distinct from a literary or musical introduction, foreword, or preface). It is a set of sy ...

or anacrusis, note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar *

Pickup group A pickup group is a group of professional musicians, which may be session musicians who are hired to play for a limited time period—ranging from a single concert or sound recording session to several weeks of shows—before disbanding. Pickup ...

or pickup band, a musical ensemble brought together for only a few performances * PICK-UP (band), a Ukrainian alternative rock band * "Pickup" (song), by MacKenzie Porter

Film

* ''Pick-Up'' (1933 film), a crime film starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft * ''Pickup'' (1951 film), an American film noir directed by Hugo Haas * ''Pick-Up'' (1975 film), an exploitation film directed by Bernard Hirschenson * ''Pick up'' (documentary), a 2005 documentary film directed by

Lucia Sanchez Lucía Sánchez (1969) is a Spanish-born French actress. She started her acting career in 1996 with '' Une robe d'été'' ''(A Summer Dress)'' directed by François Ozon. She starred in ' directed by Yves Caumon with Bernard Blancan, ' directed ...

* Pick-up (filmmaking), minor shots filmed after the primary filming of a movie to augment what has already been shot

People

* Ronald Pickup (1940–2021), British actor *

Thomas Pickup Thomas "Tommy" Henry Pickup (third ¼ 1901 – death unknown) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s and 1930s. He played at representative level for Yorkshire, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity ( Heri ...

, rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Wakefield Trinity * Tim Pickup (1948–2021), Australian rugby league footballer * Shih-Te (fl. 9th century), a Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist poet (literally "Pick-Up" or "Foundling")

Other uses

Pick-up (gaming) In pencil and paper games and computer and video games, an item is an object within the game world that can be collected by a player or, occasionally, a non-player character. These items are sometimes called pick-ups. Items are most often benefici ...

, anything that you collect whilst playing a video game * ''Pick-Up'', a 1955 novel by

Charles Willeford Charles Ray Willeford III (January 2, 1919 – March 27, 1988) was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography, and literary criticism, Willeford is best known for his series of novels featuring hardboiled detective fiction, ...

* Pick Up!, a chocolate-dipped snack bar from

Bahlsen Bahlsen is a German food company based in Hanover. It was founded in July 1889 by Hermann Bahlsen (1859–1919) as the "Hannoversche Keksfabrik H. Bahlsen". German politician Ernst Albrecht (politician, born 1930), Ernst Albrecht (1930–2014) w ...

* '' The Pickup'', a 2001 novel by Nadine Gordimer

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