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cold approach

cold approach noun: the act of approaching a stranger (usually female) and asking them on a date.

Noun

cold approach (plural cold approaches)

  1. The act of approaching a stranger (usually female) and asking them on a date.
    • Since I became a pick-up artist, I've performed over two hundred cold approaches.
  2. (sales) The act of approaching a stranger in an attempt to sell them a product or service.

Verb

cold approach (third-person singular simple present cold approaches, present participle cold approaching, simple past and past participle cold approached)

  1. To approach a stranger in this way.
    • I hate when multi-level marketing salesmen cold approach me in coffee shops.

Forms of cold approach

Noun
pluralcold approaches
Verb
third-person singular presentcold approaches
present participlecold approaching
past participlecold approached
pastcold approached

Questions about cold approach

What does cold approach mean?
Cold approach means the act of approaching a stranger (usually female) and asking them on a date.
What part of speech is cold approach?
Cold approach can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of cold approach?
The plural of cold approach is cold approaches.

Words near cold approach in the dictionary

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  2. cold agglutinin disease
  3. cold allergy
  4. cold antibodies
  5. cold antibody
  6. cold approach
  7. cold approached
  8. cold approaches
  9. cold approaching
  10. cold as a mackerel
  11. cold as a wagon tire

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