Word.ws English Dictionary

pickup truck

pickup truck noun: a light truck with an open cargo bed.

pickup truck: a light truck with an open cargo bed
Image: Powering, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

pickup truck (plural pickup trucks)

  1. (Canada, Singapore, US) A light truck with an open cargo bed.
    • The wildly entertaining trip that follows, involving a used Winnebago and an old pickup truck with ropes for seatbelts, has a profound effect on Pedro.2023 September 13, Matt de la Peña, “‘Mexikid’ and ‘Salsa Magic’ Drive Latino Kids to Their Roots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2023
    • On the same highway, I once absent-mindedly cut in front of this enormous jacked-up pickup truck.2024 June 10, Thomas Lake, “17 years later, I still remember this act of kindness from another driver”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2024

pickup truck meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Indonesian and Thai

pickup truck in Tamil

பொதியுந்து

pickup truck in Arabic

truck with an open cargo bed
نِصْف نَقْل niṣf naql, شَاحِنَةُ نَقْلٍ صَغِيرَة šāḥinatu naqlin ṣaḡīra, سَيَّارَةُ نَقْلٍ sayyāratu naqlin, سَيَّارَةُ بِيكْ أَبْ sayyāratu bīk ʔab, سَيَّارَةُ النِّصْفِ نَقْلٍ sayyāratu n-niṣfi naqlin

pickup truck in Indonesian

truck with an open cargo bed
pikap

pickup truck in Thai

truck with an open cargo bed
รถกระบะ rót-grà-bà, ปิคอัพ bpìk-àp
More languagesFewer languages
pickup truck in Vietnamese
xe bán tải

Forms of pickup truck

pluralpickup trucks
alternative formpickup
alternative formpick-up
alternative formpick up
alternative formpick up truck

Origin of pickup truck

Uncertain, but likely related to its intended use to pick up various supplies.

Words formed from pickup truck

Questions about pickup truck

What does pickup truck mean?
Pickup truck means a light truck with an open cargo bed.
What is pickup truck in Tamil?
Pickup truck in Tamil is பொதியுந்து. See Pickup truck meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pickup truck?
Pickup truck is a noun.
What is the plural of pickup truck?
The plural of pickup truck is pickup trucks.

Words near pickup truck in the dictionary

  1. pickup lens
  2. pickup lenses
  3. pickup line
  4. pickup lines
  5. pickup rider
  6. pickup truck
  7. pickup trucks
  8. pickupable
  9. pickups
  10. Pickwick
  11. pickwickian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pickup truck (page history and authors); pickup truck (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pickup truck.wav.

Cite this entry: “pickup truck.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pickup_truck. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.