n.
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(also pickup truck)
a small van or truck with low sides.
- an act of picking up or collecting a person or goods.
- an improvement, especially in an economy.
- a device on an electric guitar which converts sound vibrations into electrical signals for amplification.
- the cartridge of a record player, carrying the stylus.
- Music a series of introductory notes leading into the opening part of a tune.
- Fishing a semicircular loop of metal for guiding the line back on to the spool as it is reeled in.
adj.
N. Amer. informal (of a game) informal and spontaneous.