A pickup truck is a vehicle with an open cargo bed at the back. Load the pickup truck.
It is the best-selling vehicle in America and rare in most European cities. A pickup truck is worse in a crash for whoever it hits, since the front is high and hard.
1nounpickup truckA vehicle with an open cargo bed at the back.
“The pickup truck carried everything they owned in one journey.”
pickup truck is a vehicle.
Named from picking up loads, which is what the open bed was for.
but likely related to its intended use to pick up various supplies.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Vehicles & Machines