pickup truck

See also: pick up truck

English

This pickup truck is typical of full-size pickups in the 2020s.

This pickup truck is fairly typical of a compact pickup from the 1970s through 2010s.

This pickup truck is typical of full-size pickups in the 1970s.

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

pickup truck (plural pickup trucks)

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

   Hypernyms: truck < motor vehicle < vehicle

   • 2023 September 13, Matt de la Peña, “‘Mexikid’ and ‘Salsa Magic’ Drive Latino Kids to Their Roots”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 4 October 2023:

     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.

   • 2024 June 10, Thomas Lake, “17 years later, I still remember this act of kindness from another driver”, in CNN‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 June 2024:

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

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

• sport truck

Descendants

• Chinese: 皮卡 (píkǎ), 皮卡車／皮卡车 (píkǎchē)
• → Japanese: ピックアップトラック (pikkuapputorakku)
• → Plautdietsch: Pikjopp
• → Portuguese: picape
• → Russian: пика́п (pikáp)
  • → Armenian: փիքափ (pʻikʻapʻ)
  • → Uyghur: پىكاپ (pikap)

Translations

truck with an open cargo bed

• Afrikaans: bakkie (af)
• Albanian: kamionçinë f
• Arabic: نِصْف نَقْل f (niṣf naql), ^{(please verify)} شَاحُونَة f (šāḥūna), شَاحِنَةُ نَقْلٍ صَغِيرَة f (šāḥinatu naqlin ṣaḡīra), سَيَّارَةُ نَقْلٍ f (sayyāratu naqlin), سَيَّارَةُ بِيكْ أَبْ f (sayyāratu bīk ʔab), سَيَّارَةُ النِّصْفِ نَقْلٍ f (sayyāratu n-niṣfi naqlin)

  Moroccan Arabic: پيكوپ (pikūp)

• Armenian: փիքափ (pʻikʻapʻ)
• Azerbaijani: pikap
• Belarusian: піка́п m (pikáp)
• Bulgarian: пика́п (pikáp)
• Catalan: camioneta f
• Cheyenne: amóvôhtó'hestôtse
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皮卡 (zh) (píkǎ), 皮卡車 / 皮卡车 (zh) (píkǎchē)

• Czech: pick-up (cs) m
• Danish: pickup (da) c
• Dutch: pick-uptruck (nl) m, pick-up (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝarĝaŭto, kamiono
• Estonian: pikap
• Finnish: lava-auto (fi), avolava, pick-up (fi)
• French: pick-up (fr) m, pickup (fr) m
• Georgian: პიკაპი (ṗiḳaṗi)
• German: Pickup (de) m, Pritschenwagen (de) m
• Greek: ημιφορτηγό (el) n (imifortigó), (colloquial) φορτηγάκι (el) n (fortigáki)
• Hebrew: טֶנְדֶּר (he) m (ténder)
• Hungarian: pick-up (hu)
• Icelandic: pallbíll m
• Indonesian: pikap (id)
• Japanese: ピックアップトラック (pikkuappu torakku), ピックアップ (ja) (pikkuappu)
• Kazakh: пикап (pıykap)
• Khmer: ភីកអាប់ (phiikʼap), ពីកឺប (piikəɨp)
• Korean: 픽업 (pigeop), 픽업 트럭 (pigeop teureok)
• Kyrgyz: пикап (pikap)
• Lao: ລົດກະບະ (lot ka ba)
• Latvian: pikaps m
• Lithuanian: pikapas m
• Macedonian: камионе́тка f (kamionétka), пи́кап m (píkap)
• Navajo: chidí bikéeʼjįʼ adeezʼáhígíí, chidí bikéeʼjįʼ adeezʼáhí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pickup m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: وانِت (vânet), وانِت‌بار (vânet-bâr)

• Plautdietsch: Pikjopp m
• Polish: pikap (pl) m, pick-up (pl) m, półciężarówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: caminhonete (pt) f (Brazil), camioneta (pt) f (Portugal), camionete f (Portugal), picape (pt) f
• Romanian: camionetă (ro) f
• Russian: пика́п (ru) m (pikáp)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пика̏п m, камио̀не̄т m

  Latin: pikȁp (sh) m, kamiònēt (sh) m

• Slovak: pick-up m
• Slovene: poltovornjak m, pickup m
• Spanish: camioneta (es) f, pickup m or f (Latin America), picop m (Guatemala), troca (es) f (Northern Mexico), troque m (Northwestern Mexico), pick-up m (Americas), picacho (es) m (El Salvador), picó (es) m
• Swedish: pickup (sv) c
• Tepehuan:

  Southeastern Tepehuan: trooka

• Thai: รถกระบะ (th) (rót-grà-bà), ปิคอัพ (bpìk-àp)
• Turkish: pikap (tr), kamyonet (tr)
• Ukrainian: піка́п m (pikáp)
• Vietnamese: xe bán tải
• Welsh: codgar m, tryc picyp m

See also

• bakkie
• ute