pickup line
noun
a remark used to try to attract sexual or romantic attention from someone, especially a stranger.
pickup lines
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pluralof pickup line.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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ChatGPT helps her draft pickup lines for dating apps and icebreakers for parties.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
“It’s not like home where you have your parents and all of your family around you,” Simon tells those she meets in grocery stores and school pickup lines.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023
Days before I talked to Shane, I’d pasted into ChatGPT an article she had written in 2021 about A.I. pickup lines.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2023
Mr. Maggio grew up in “Saturday Night Fever”-era Brooklyn, when young people wore their astrological signs on T-shirts and used their signs as pickup lines in discos.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2017
“We were talking about how girls don’t usually use pickup lines, but if they did they would be awesome and not cheesy,” Alaina said.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2016
