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pickup artists

pickup artists is the plural of pickup artist.

Meaning of pickup artist

Noun

pickup artist (plural pickup artists)

  1. One who uses specialized tactics to seduce women.
    • Researching a book proposed by an editor, I allowed myself to be taken under the wings of the greatest self-proclaimed pickup artists in the world and entered an underground subculture of men dedicated—sometimes to an unhealthy extreme—to figuring out the mystery of the opposite sex.2004 January 25, Neil Strauss, “HE AIMS! HE SHOOTS! YES!!”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    PUA, player

Questions about pickup artists

What is pickup artists the plural of?
Pickup artists is the plural of pickup artist.

Words near pickup artists in the dictionary

  1. pickthanks
  2. picktooth
  3. picktooths
  4. pickup
  5. pickup artist
  6. pickup artists
  7. pickup community
  8. pickup cover
  9. pickup covers
  10. pickup lens
  11. pickup lenses

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