pickup artist

English

Noun

pickup artist (plural pickup artists)

1. (seduction community) One who uses specialized tactics to seduce women.

   Synonyms: PUA, player

   • 2004 January 25, Neil Strauss, “HE AIMS! HE SHOOTS! YES!!”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Researching a book proposed by an editor, I allowed myself to be taken under the wings of the greatest self-proclaimed pickup artists in the world and entered an underground subculture of men dedicated—sometimes to an unhealthy extreme—to figuring out the mystery of the opposite sex.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撩妹高手 (liáomèi gāoshǒu)

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• Finnish: pelimies (fi)
• French: séducteur (fr) m
• German: Aufreißkünstler m
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• Russian: пикапер (ru) m (pikaper)
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• Swedish: raggningsspecialist c