For, besides our old Ali Baba and his sixteen sons and grandsons, there were Jeremy's ten pickups from Arabia's byways, whom he couldn't leave behind because they knew the secret of his gold-mine.

[devices to convert recorded sound to electronic signals] phonograph needle, stylus, diamond stylus, pickup; reading head (electronic devices).

V. acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather; collect &c (assemble) 72; pick, pickup; glean. find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together; get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw, get in the harvest.

After an actor has been beheaded, he has been known to pickup the false head and apostrophize it while making his exit from the stage.

His rig was a blue Ford pickup with a battered cap on the back.

Amber stretched and went back into her room, emerging when Art honked the horn in his pickup.

He was out the door and into an old blue pickup before she could think of anything else to say.

"It's that '56 Ford pickup out therethe black one with the wood rack.

A pickup passed at high speed, hitting a pothole and splattering mud across the windshield.

A pickup was parked in front of a wall and a gate which bore the number Oliver was seeking.

Grand Central pickup.

Paul Gallico (A); 30Aug72; R535172. Human pickup.

Grand Central pickup.

Paul Gallico (A); 30Aug72; R535172. Human pickup.