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Pickup(s), pick-up, or pick up may refer to:


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 *
Pick-up (filmmaking) In filmmaking, a pick-up is a small, relatively minor shot, filmed or recorded after the fact to augment footage already shot. When entire scenes are redone, it is referred to as a re-shoot or additional photography. On set During principal pho ...
, minor shots filmed after the primary filming of a movie to augment what has already been shot * ''Pickups'', a 2017 British film directed by
Jamie Thraves James Thraves is a British film writer and director. He is known for many music videos and the feature film ''Treacle Jr.'' (2010), starring Aidan Gillen. Early life and education James Thraves began making early short experimental films in 198 ...


Music

* Pick-up notes or anacrusis, note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar * Pickup group 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 *"Pick Up", by Dierks Bentley from ''Black'' (Dierks Bentley album)


People

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Ronald Pickup Ronald Alfred Pickup (7 June 1940 – 24 February 2021) was an English actor. He was active in television, film, and theatre, beginning with a 1964 appearance in ''Doctor Who''. Theatre critic Michael Billington described him as "a terrific st ...
(1940–2021), British actor * Thomas Pickup, rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Wakefield Trinity *
Tim Pickup Timothy Alexander Pickup (6 October 1948 – 7 June 2021) was an Australian Rugby League footballer for the North Sydney Bears, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, New South Wales and Australian national side in the 1970s, playing his First Test f ...
(1948–2021), Australian rugby league footballer *
Shih-Te Shide (, fl. 9th century)Cihai lists Shide as living during the time of emperor Tai Zong who ruled from 626 to 649. See the date controversy in Hanshan article. Page 692. was a Tang dynasty Chinese Buddhist poet at the Guoqing Temple on Mount ...
(fl. 9th century), a Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist poet (literally "Pick-Up" or "Foundling")


Technology

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Magnetic pickup A pickup is an electronic device that converts energy from one form to another that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these t ...
, an electromagnetic device returning electrical pulses generated by rotating gears * Phonograph pickup, 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 *
Pickup truck A pickup truck or pickup is a Truck_classification#Table_of_US_GVWR_classifications, light or medium duty truck that has an enclosed cabin (truck), cabin, and a back end made up of a cargo bed that is enclosed by three low walls with no roof (th ...
or pick-up truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo area **
Toyota Pickup The , stylised as HiLux and historically as Hi-Lux, is a series of pickup trucks produced and marketed by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota. The majority of these vehicles are sold as a pickup truck or cab chassis, although they coul ...
, a pickup truck marketed in the United States by Toyota **
Isuzu Pickup The Isuzu Faster is a pickup truck that was manufactured and marketed by Isuzu between 1972 and 2002 over three generations. It was sold under myriad nameplates, most commonly they were marketed under their respective model codes: Isuzu KB for t ...
, a pickup truck marketed in the United States by Isuzu **
Peugeot Pick Up The Dongfeng Rich is a series of pickup trucks produced by the Dongfeng Nissan joint venture of Chinese auto manufacturer Dongfeng Motor Corporation. First generation The first generation Dongfeng Rich is a pickup truck and a SUV based on the de ...
, a pickup truck marketed in Africa as a rebadged Dongfeng Rich *
Pickup (electromotive power) A current collector (often called a "pickup") is a device used in trolleybuses, trams, electric locomotives and EMUs to carry electric power ( current) from overhead lines, electric third rails, or ground-level power supplies to the electrical ...
, a device used by electric locomotives, trams, etc. to acquire electric power from overhead wires, third rails, etc. *
Pickup (music technology) A pickup is an electronic device that converts energy from one form to another that captures or senses mechanical vibrations produced by musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, and converts these to ...
, an electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument *
Pickup tube Video camera tubes are devices based on the cathode-ray tube that were used in television cameras to capture television images, prior to the introduction of charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensors in the 1980s. Several different types of tubes ...
, a type of cathode ray tube


Other uses

* Pick Up!, a chocolate-dipped snack bar from
Bahlsen Bahlsen GmbH & Co. KG is a German food company based in Hanover. It was founded in July 1889 by Hermann Bahlsen (1859–1919) as the "Hannoversche Cakesfabrik H. Bahlsen". Bahlsen makes products such as chocolate-dipped Pick Up! snack bars. B ...
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Pick-up (gaming) In pen 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 wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective fiction, detective Hoke ...
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The Pickup ''The Pickup'' is a 2001 novel by South African writer Nadine Gordimer. It tells the story of a couple: Julie Summers, a white woman from a financially secure family, and Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant in South Africa. After Abdu's visa is ref ...
'', a 2001 novel by Nadine Gordimer


See also

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Pickup artist Pickup artists (PUA) are people whose goals are seduction and sexual success. Predominantly heterosexual men, they often self-identify as the seduction community or the pickup community. This community exists through various channels, including ...
, a man who is skilled in meeting, attracting, and seducing women *
Pick-up game In sports and video games, a pick-up game (also known as a ''scratch game'' or ''PUG'') is a game that has been spontaneously started by a group of players. Players are generally invited to show up beforehand, but unlike exhibition games, there ...
, a game spontaneously started by a group of players * Pick-up hockey, an informal type of ice hockey *
Pick-up line A pick-up line or chat-up line is a conversation opener with the intent of engaging a person for romance or dating. As overt and sometimes humorous displays of romantic interest, pick-up lines advertise the wit of their speakers to their target ...
, a conversation opener to engage an unfamiliar person for romance or dating {{disambiguation, surname