pick-up line

See also: pick up line and pickup line

English

Alternative forms

• pick up line, pickup line

Noun

pick-up line (plural pick-up lines)

1. A short introduction or comment intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger.

   Synonyms: (chiefly UK) chat-up line, opener

   Freddie has a new pick-up line for every girl he meets in the bar, but he always goes home alone.

   • 2013 July 2, Stuart Heritage, “Pickup lines: tell us your best – and the worst you've ever heard”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Obviously, the real skill of the pickup line is to possess a moronic amount of self-belief […] but it's worth persevering with. Rod Stewart, for example, puts his 30-year run of successful pickups down to a curious "What have you got in that handbag?", […]

Translations

short introduction intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger

• Catalan: floreta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 情話／情话 (zh) (qínghuà), 土味情話／土味情话 (tǔwèi qínghuà)

• Danish: scorereplik
• Dutch: openingszin (nl) m
• Finnish: iskurepliikki (fi), (colloquial) iskurepla
• French: phrase d’accroche f, phrase d’approche f, (colloquial) disquette (fr) f
• German: Anmachspruch (de) m, Anmache (de) f
• Greek: ατάκα (el) f (atáka)
• Icelandic: veiðilína, pikköpplína, bólbeita
• Indonesian: gombalan (id), pemikat (id)
• Italian: frase da rimorchio, frase d'approccio
• Ladino: shakaruka
• Malay: kata pikat
• Polish: podryw m
• Portuguese: cantada (pt)
• Romanian: replică de agățat f
• Serbo-Croatian: upucavanje, ulet
• Spanish: (Argentina) piropo (es)
• Swedish: raggningsreplik c

See also

• pickup artist