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pickup line

American  

[pik-oop lahyn] / ˈpɪkˌʊp ˈlaɪn /

noun

• pickup lines
  plural

1. a remark used to try to attract sexual or romantic attention from someone, especially a stranger.

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• pickup lines
  plural

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pickup line

Gaby Luisa was standing outside a dance club in Arizona earlier this summer when a man wearing glasses threw out a pickup line.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

A surefire pickup line is saying you work at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or TSMC, the world’s biggest contract chip maker and a generous local employer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“When I came back our country was dead. Now it’s the hottest country on the planet,” he said in what has become the standard stump speech pickup line.

From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026

“For parents across America,” writer and pickup line abstainer Angie Schmitt wrote last year, “the school car line is a daily punishment.”

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2024

He talked to everybody from drive-through attendants to parents in the pickup line after school.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz