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pickup noun- a short-term sexual partner US, 1871
- Many Baltimore Street joints are pointedly pick-up bars. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 267, 1951
- First, there are the pick-up bars for amateurs only. — Screw, p. 12, 3 November 1969
- a police order to detain and bring a person to the station for questioning US
- She decided to bluff; she didn’t believe there was a pickup out on her. — Donald Goines, Black Gangster, p. 279, 1977
- in the entertainment industry, a commitment to finance production of a set number of episodes of a television programme US
- So the job might be good for several episodes if Harbor Nights got a seven-show pickup. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 2, 1993
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