pickup

• n. コレクション、照合; ピックアップトラック; ピックアップ; ヒッチハイカー; 気軽な知り合い
• n. （ピックアップ）人名；（英）ピックアップ

比喩的用法。

pickup (n.)

also pick-up, "that which is picked up," 1848; see pick up (v.). As "act of picking up" from 1882. Meaning "capacity for acceleration" is from 1909; that of "recovery" is from 1916. In reference to a game between informal teams chosen on the spot, from 1905 (as an adjective in this sense by 1936).

Meaning "small truck used for light loads," 1937, is shortened from pickup truck (pickup body is attested from 1928). The notion probably being of a vehicle for use to "pick up" (feed, lumber, etc.) and deliver it where it was needed.

1. He pulled to a stop behind a pickup truck.

トラックの後ろに止まった。

2.Frank Mariano negotiates the desert terrain in his battered pickup .

フランク?マリアーノは、ボロボロのトラックを運転して砂漠地帯を横断することに成功した。

3.a pickup in the housing market

住宅景気の好転

4.I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.

この車で小型軽トラックに交換したい。dd>

5.That lucky guy is a choice pickup for the girls.

その幸運な男の子は女の子たちがくっつきたい人です。