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  • noun Plural form of pickup.

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Examples

  • They would ask me then to take them to what they called pickups, and I assumed what they were doing was collecting the big, but what they were really doing was robbing these places.

    CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2001 2001

  • Huge f**kin 'pickups with lots of crome are a good bet, too.

    Voyage of discovery (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • My first tastes of venison were much like Douglas 'mom, from deer that were killed on dog drives, gut shot, hauled around in pickups then, to paraphrase Tom Kelly, haggled into unidentifiable hunks of bloody gristle by a succession of drunks with rusty saws and hatchets.

    Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better? 2009

  • Are we to see “convoys” of fat guys in pickups and camo posturing on our streets?

    Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move 2009

  • My first tastes of venison were much like Douglas 'mom, from deer that were killed on dog drives, gut shot, hauled around in pickups then, to paraphrase Tom Kelly, haggled into unidentifiable hunks of bloody gristle by a succession of drunks with rusty saws and hatchets.

    Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better? 2009

  • There is the possibility, of course, as particularly in the launch year when you have got some near-term pickups just from material purchases, help build alphas, help build beta units things like that.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2010

  • Cars and small trucks (pickups, that is) are selling at a pace of 11 million a year, down from 16 million before the recession.

    Where's the Sizzle in Selling Cars? 2010

  • I watched until their pickups were a red blight on the landscape and then gone.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • Everyone from Mays to Chipper Jones rode in pickups.

    Stars of past, present align on grand stage 2008

  • Cars and small trucks (pickups, that is) are selling at a pace of 11 million a year, down from 16 million before the recession.

    Where's the Sizzle in Selling Cars? 2010

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