pickup vs pick up
Definitions
noun
- an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
- a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
- the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
- a warrant to take someone into custody
- anything with restorative powers
Examples
It bothered me a little that I didn't have a pickup, and I couldn't see doing much off road driving with my Mustang fastback.
The first two Toyota pickups we got into wouldn't start, even with eight men rocking them to get the engine to catch.
On a recent morning, Evers steered his pickup truck through a Central California almond grove, his drawling sales pitch at the ready.
Definitions
verb
- eat by pecking at, like a bird
- take and lift upward
- perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- take up by hand
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
Examples
If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
Instead, go to the departure area of the airport and pick up a taxi that has just dropped somebody.
By the same token, if you pick up a strange rash, you will want to see a doctor in case it really is flesh-eating bacteria.
