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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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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

To get you started, here are 16 books to read at the beach, in the bathtub, in the backyard or in stolen moments waiting in the school pickup line or on your lunch break.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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