pua

plural puas

1. countableuncountableA type of fried sweet cake made of flour and sugar/jaggery popular in Northern India.

plural puas

1. A scraper or stick used to play a guiro.

plural Puas

1. PhilippinesA surname from Hokkien.

plural PUAs

1. abbreviationinitialismlifestyleInitialism of pickup artist.

   Many also did not know that there is a name for men who often use such cruel tactics in pursuit of women: PUAs, or pickup artists.

   2019 December 29, Li Yuan, “For China’s Pickup Artists, Sex Is the Goal and Urging Suicide Is a Tactic”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2020

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   Sure, the echoes of PUA raise concerns and I have no doubt Saturday Sarge has its fair share of men just wanting to pick up women for sex (Phil says in the four years he's sarged he's only slept with about 10 – the same amount another sarger says he's slept with in the last six months).

   2014 October 18, Gareth May, “Saturday Sarge: meet the men who go hunting for women”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2019

2. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of potentially unwanted application.
3. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).