"PUA" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: PUAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} PUA (plural PUAs)
  1. (seduction community) Initialism of pickup artist. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: pickup artist Categories (topical): Seduction community, People Hyponyms: SPUA
    Sense id: en-PUA-en-noun-xC4TY0u4 Disambiguation of People: 70 7 23 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 12 38 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 59 11 30 Topics: lifestyle, seduction-community, sexuality
  2. (computing) Initialism of potentially unwanted application. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: potentially unwanted application Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-PUA-en-noun-egeMoCGw Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  3. (computing) Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use). Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Private Use Area (extra: the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use) Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-PUA-en-noun-s8XrH1Wa Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

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