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make a pass

make a pass verb: to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been involved with.

Verb

make a pass (third-person singular simple present makes a pass, present participle making a pass, simple past and past participle made a pass)

  1. To unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been involved with.
    • He clumsily made a pass at the prom queen, and she responded with a scowl.
    • Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses.1926, Dorothy Parker, “News Item”, in Enough Rope, page 85

make a pass meaning in Malayalam

make a pass in Malayalam

at make (sexual) advances to, proposition, come on to
ശൃംഗാരസമീപനം നടത്തുക, പ്രേമാഭ്യർത്ഥന നടത്തുക, ഇംഗിതം അറിയിക്കുക, ലെെംഗിക ഉദ്ദേശത്തോടെ സമീപിക്കുക, ലെെംഗികബന്ധത്തിനു ക്ഷണിക്കുക, കാമവിലാസചേഷ്ടകൾ കാണിക്കുക

Forms of make a pass

third-person singular presentmakes a pass
present participlemaking a pass
past participlemade a pass
pastmade a pass

Questions about make a pass

What does make a pass mean?
Make a pass means to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been involved with.
What is make a pass in Malayalam?
Make a pass in Malayalam is ശൃംഗാരസമീപനം നടത്തുക, പ്രേമാഭ്യർത്ഥന നടത്തുക, ഇംഗിതം അറിയിക്കുക. See Make a pass meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is make a pass?
Make a pass is a verb.
What is the past tense of make a pass?
The past tense of make a pass is made a pass.

Words near make a pass in the dictionary

  1. make a muscle
  2. make a name for oneself
  3. make a night of it
  4. make a noise in the world
  5. make a nuisance of oneself
  6. make a pass
  7. make a pig of oneself
  8. make a pig out of oneself
  9. make a pig's ear of
  10. make a pile
  11. make a play

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: make a pass (page history and authors); make a pass (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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