pick-up line

See also: pick up line

English

Noun

pick-up line (plural pick-up lines)

1. A vocal introduction intended to garner sexual interest from a stranger.

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

Alternative forms

• pickup line

Translations

vocal introduction intended to garner sexual interest from a stranger

• Chinese:

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

• Danish: scorereplik
• Finnish: iskurepliikki (fi), (colloquial) iskurepla
• French: phrase d’accroche f
• Greek: ατάκα (el) f (atáka)
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• Icelandic: veiðilína, pikköpplína, bólbeita
• Indonesian: gombalan (id), pemikat (id)
• Malay: kata pikat
• Portuguese: cantada (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: upucavanje, ulet
• Spanish: (Argentina) piropo (es)
• Swedish: raggningsreplik c