pickup line
noun
US
: a prepared remark used by a person to start a conversation with a stranger they are interested in having a romantic relationship with
He tried using one of his clever pickup lines on her, but it didn't work.
Examples of pickup line in a Sentence
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The ladies walked out of a limo one by one with their best pickup line to grab his attention.
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Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Jan. 2025
Within about an hour of the shooting, Ivey was caught in the pickup line outside his child’s school.
—Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 28 Jan. 2025
Yet, all-wheel steering ensures agility and a respectable turning radius—moms won’t have any issue weaving cones in the school pickup line.
—Michael Harley, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
The new model is quieter and more advanced, a better version of the big people carrier currently in the pickup line at a Montessori near you.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2024
Big as the performance is, Stiller isn’t alone: Writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer also pillages shamelessly from the Sundance playbook of whimsy, giving himself the lion’s share of irony-laden pickup lines and depressive witticisms about the pointlessness of romance.
—Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
Entering the store’s white-cube interior, customers were neatly sorted into relatively short pickup lines and attended to by hovering staff, the company having long ago done away with checkout counters and the other traditional trappings of retail.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
Google Cast Is Coming to Cars, Starting With Rivian
Need to kill some time while charging an EV or waiting in the pickup line?
—Chloe Albanesius, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
Lately, though, that cultural pessimism seems to have come closer to home: fear of neighbors with a different flag in their apartment windows, anger at other parents in the school pickup line with the wrong stickers on their bumpers, even disdain for close relatives at the Thanksgiving table.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
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Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Jan. 2025
Within about an hour of the shooting, Ivey was caught in the pickup line outside his child’s school.
—Simone Jasper, Charlotte Observer, 28 Jan. 2025
Yet, all-wheel steering ensures agility and a respectable turning radius—moms won’t have any issue weaving cones in the school pickup line.
—Michael Harley, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
The new model is quieter and more advanced, a better version of the big people carrier currently in the pickup line at a Montessori near you.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2024
Big as the performance is, Stiller isn’t alone: Writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer also pillages shamelessly from the Sundance playbook of whimsy, giving himself the lion’s share of irony-laden pickup lines and depressive witticisms about the pointlessness of romance.
—Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
Entering the store’s white-cube interior, customers were neatly sorted into relatively short pickup lines and attended to by hovering staff, the company having long ago done away with checkout counters and the other traditional trappings of retail.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
Google Cast Is Coming to Cars, Starting With Rivian
Need to kill some time while charging an EV or waiting in the pickup line?
—Chloe Albanesius, PCMAG, 15 May 2024
Lately, though, that cultural pessimism seems to have come closer to home: fear of neighbors with a different flag in their apartment windows, anger at other parents in the school pickup line with the wrong stickers on their bumpers, even disdain for close relatives at the Thanksgiving table.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
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“Pickup line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pickup%20line. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
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