pickup line
noun
US
: a prepared remark used by a person to start a conversation with a stranger they are interested in having a romantic relationship with
He tried using one of his clever pickup lines on her, but it didn't work.
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Big as the performance is, Stiller isn’t alone: Writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer also pillages shamelessly from the Sundance playbook of whimsy, giving himself the lion’s share of irony-laden pickup lines and depressive witticisms about the pointlessness of romance.
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Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
Entering the store’s white-cube interior, customers were neatly sorted into relatively short pickup lines and attended to by hovering staff, the company having long ago done away with checkout counters and the other traditional trappings of retail.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
Google Cast Is Coming to Cars, Starting With Rivian
Need to kill some time while charging an EV or waiting in the pickup line?
—Chloe Albanesius, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
Lately, though, that cultural pessimism seems to have come closer to home: fear of neighbors with a different flag in their apartment windows, anger at other parents in the school pickup line with the wrong stickers on their bumpers, even disdain for close relatives at the Thanksgiving table.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
Porter, meanwhile, told me that California buses a smaller fraction of public school students than any other state, and that more buses could reduce air pollution from idling cars at school pickup lines.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
Forty-three years later, that pickup line served as the slogan printed on T-shirts sold at Snooks Candies and Chocolate Factory in Folsom Historic District.
—Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2024
The proliferating pickup lines seem to be driven more by necessity than choice.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
This includes a set of lashes for the pickup line—today, at least.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
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Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
Entering the store’s white-cube interior, customers were neatly sorted into relatively short pickup lines and attended to by hovering staff, the company having long ago done away with checkout counters and the other traditional trappings of retail.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
Google Cast Is Coming to Cars, Starting With Rivian
Need to kill some time while charging an EV or waiting in the pickup line?
—Chloe Albanesius, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
Lately, though, that cultural pessimism seems to have come closer to home: fear of neighbors with a different flag in their apartment windows, anger at other parents in the school pickup line with the wrong stickers on their bumpers, even disdain for close relatives at the Thanksgiving table.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
Porter, meanwhile, told me that California buses a smaller fraction of public school students than any other state, and that more buses could reduce air pollution from idling cars at school pickup lines.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
Forty-three years later, that pickup line served as the slogan printed on T-shirts sold at Snooks Candies and Chocolate Factory in Folsom Historic District.
—Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee, 8 Feb. 2024
The proliferating pickup lines seem to be driven more by necessity than choice.
—Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
This includes a set of lashes for the pickup line—today, at least.
—Jenny Berg, Vogue, 16 Nov. 2023
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“Pickup line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pickup%20line. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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