pickup truck

• pickup, pick-up, pick up, pick up truck

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

pickup truck (plural pickup trucks)

2. (chiefly Canada, US, Singapore) A light truck with an open cargo bed.

   Hypernyms: truck < motor vehicle < vehicle

   • 2024 June 10, Thomas Lake, “17 years later, I still remember this act of kindness from another driver”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     On the same highway, I once absent-mindedly cut in front of this enormous jacked-up pickup truck.

• baht bus, songthaew (pickup used as a shared taxi in SE Asia)

• Chinese: 皮卡 (píkǎ), 皮卡車／皮卡车 (píkǎchē)
• Japanese: ピックアップトラック (pikkuapputorakku)
• Russian: пика́п (pikáp)

• bakkie
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