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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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Noun Inflected Forms

• pickup lines
  plural

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pickup line

Those comments swirled in my head as I hustled toward the shuttle pickup line near the Pike Outlets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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

Because in the quiet of an ordinary day, I get to wait for my child: in the school pickup line; while she ties her shoes; through a tantrum, a story, a song.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025

“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

How did I blurt out the cheesiest pickup line in existence?

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali