Pickup

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

Technology

 * Pickup truck or pick-up truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo area
 * Pickup (electromotive power), a device used by electric locomotives, trams, etc. to acquire electric power from overhead wires, third rails, etc.
 * Pickup (music technology), an electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument
 * Pickup tube, a type of cathode ray tube
 * Magnetic pickup, 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

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

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), 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, 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), 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
 * The Pickup, a 2001 novel by Nadine Gordimer
 * Toyota Pickup, a pickup truck marketed in the United States