Pickup, pick-up or pick up may refer to:
Technology
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Pickup truck or pick-up truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo area
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Pickup (music technology), an electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument
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Pickup tube
Video camera tubes were 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
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Magnetic pickup, an electromagnetic device returning electrical pulses generated by rotating gears
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Phonograph pickup, a transducer used for the playback of gramophone records on a turntable or phonograph
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Pickup forceps, a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects
Music
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Pick-up notes or anacrusis, note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar
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Pickup group or pickup band, a musical ensemble brought together for only a few performances
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PICK-UP (band), a Ukrainian alternative rock band
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"Pickup" (song), by MacKenzie Porter
Film
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''Pick-Up'' (1933 film), a crime film starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft
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''Pickup'' (1951 film), an American film noir directed by Hugo Haas
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''Pick-Up'' (1975 film), an exploitation film directed by Bernard Hirschenson
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''Pick up'' (documentary), a 2005 documentary film directed by
Lucia Sanchez
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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 phot ...
, minor shots filmed after the primary filming of a movie to augment what has already been shot
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 sta ...
(1940–2021), British actor
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Thomas Pickup, rugby league footballer of the 1920s for Wakefield Trinity
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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. He played Rugby Union for ...
(1948–2021), Australian rugby league footballer
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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 Ti ...
(fl. 9th century), a Tang Dynasty Chinese Buddhist poet (literally "Pick-Up" or "Foundling")
Other uses
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Pick-up (gaming), anything that you collect whilst playing a video game
* ''Pick-Up'', a 1955 novel by
Charles Willeford
* Pick Up!, a chocolate-dipped snack bar from
Bahlsen
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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 re ...
'', a 2001 novel by Nadine Gordimer
See also
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Pickup artist
Pickup artists (PUA), self-identified as dating coaches, the seduction community or the pickup community, is a movement of men (or women) whose goal is seduction and sexual success. The community exists through Internet newsletters and blogs, ma ...
, a man who is skilled in meeting, attracting, and seducing women
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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 i ...
, a game spontaneously started by a group of players
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Pick-up hockey, an informal type of ice hockey
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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
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