How to pronounce pickup
Listen to pickup in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“pickup” in real sentences
936 clips in the index · 540 American · 24 British · 8 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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pickup pickup truck driver approached, the bus driver sounded the horn.
NTSB · hear it here
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A medium-sized car for a medium-sized car, a pickup for a pickup.
TED · hear it here
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pre-order pickup, and takeout.
Federal Reserve · hear it here
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were doing a pickup shot.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pickup. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.