Pickup

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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
• The Pickup (film), a 2025 American heist action comedy film starring Eddie Murphy, Keke Palmer, Pete Davidson, and Eva Longoria
• 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
• Pickups, a 2017 British film directed by Jamie Thraves

Music

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")

Technology

• Phonograph pickup, a transducer used for the playback of gramophone records on a turntable or phonograph
• 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
  • Magnetic pickup, a type of pickup used on musical instruments
• Pickup forceps, a handheld, hinged instrument used for grasping and holding objects
• Pickup truck or pick-up truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo area
  • Isuzu Pickup, a pickup truck marketed in the United States by Isuzu
  • Isuzu Pickup Truck, a pickup truck marketed in Columbia by Isuzu
  • Peugeot Pick Up, a pickup truck marketed in Africa as a rebadged Dongfeng Rich
  • Toyota Pickup, a pickup truck marketed in the United States by Toyota
• Pickup tube, a type of cathode ray tube

Other uses

• Pick Up, original name for British music magazine Jazz Journal
• Pick Up!, a chocolate-dipped snack bar from Bahlsen
• Pick-Up, a 1955 novel by Charles Willeford
• Pick-up (gaming), anything collected while playing a video game
• The Pickup, a 2001 novel by Nadine Gordimer
• The Pick Up, an Australian drive radio show with Brittany Hockley and Laura Byrne
• The PickUp, a free weekend-only nighttime shuttle bus service operating a single route along Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California

See also

• Pickup artist, a person (usually a man) who is skilled in the art of the 'pickup'; meeting, attracting, and seducing women
• Pick-up game, a game spontaneously started by a group of players
• Pick-up hockey, an informal type of ice hockey
• Pick-up line, a conversation opener to engage an unfamiliar person for romance or dating

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