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'''Pickup'''('''s'''), '''pick-up''', or '''pick up''' may refer to:
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==Film==
* [[Pick-Up (1933 film)|''Pick-Up'' (1933 film)]], a crime film starring Sylvia Sidney and George Raft
* [[Pickup (1951 film)|''Pickup'' (1951 film)]], an American film noir directed by Hugo Haas
* [[Pick-Up (1975 film)|''Pick-Up'' (1975 film)]], an exploitation film directed by Bernard Hirschenson
* [[The Pickup (film)|''The Pickup'' (film)]], a 2025 American heist action comedy film starring Eddie Murphy, Keke Palmer, Pete Davidson, and Eva Longoria
* [[Pick up (documentary)|''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==
=== Songs ===
*[[Pickup (song)|"Pickup" (song)]], by MacKenzie Porter
*"Pick Up", by Dierks Bentley from [[Black (Dierks Bentley album)|''Black'' (Dierks Bentley album)]]
=== Other uses in music ===
*[[Pick-Up (band)]], a Ukrainian alternative rock band
*[[Pickup (music technology)]], an electromagnetic device which detects vibrations from a musical instrument
*[[Pickup group]] or pickup band, a musical ensemble brought together for only a few performances
*[[Pick-up notes]] or anacrusis, note or sequence of notes which precedes the first downbeat in a bar

==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==
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*[[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 that you collect 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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