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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pick-up line.wav Forms: pick-up lines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pick-up line (plural pick-up lines)
  1. A short introduction or comment intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger. Categories (topical): Sex, Talking Synonyms: chat-up line [UK], opener, pick up line, pickup line Related terms: pickup artist Translations (short introduction intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger): floreta [feminine] (Catalan), 情話 (Chinese Mandarin), 情话 (qínghuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 土味情話 (Chinese Mandarin), 土味情话 (tǔwèi qínghuà) (Chinese Mandarin), scorereplik (Danish), openingszin [masculine] (Dutch), iskurepliikki (Finnish), iskurepla [colloquial] (Finnish), phrase d’accroche [feminine] (French), phrase d’approche [feminine] (French), disquette [colloquial, feminine] (French), Anmachspruch [masculine] (German), Anmache [feminine] (German), ατάκα (atáka) [feminine] (Greek), veiðilína (Icelandic), pikköpplína (Icelandic), bólbeita (Icelandic), gombalan (Indonesian), pemikat (Indonesian), frase da rimorchio (Italian), frase d'approccio (Italian), shakaruka (Ladino), kata pikat (Malay), podryw [masculine] (Polish), cantada [Brazil] (Portuguese), piropo [Portugal] (Portuguese), replică de agățat [feminine] (Romanian), upucavanje (Serbo-Croatian), ulet (Serbo-Croatian), piropo [Argentina] (Spanish), raggningsreplik [common-gender] (Swedish)

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      "sense": "short introduction intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ],
      "word": "piropo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "short introduction intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "replică de agățat"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "short introduction intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger",
      "word": "upucavanje"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "short introduction intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger",
      "word": "ulet"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "short introduction intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger",
      "tags": [
        "Argentina"
      ],
      "word": "piropo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "short introduction intended to garner romantic or sexual interest from a stranger",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "raggningsreplik"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pick-up line"
}

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