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nounchat-up line (plural chat-up lines)
plural chat-up lines
- UKSynonym of pick-up line.
Chatup lines are all well and good (or let's be honest, usually bad and awful), but for some people, the silently charming approach to flirting works better.
2022 May 24, Nancy Groves, “What Is Unspoken Rizz? 23 Tweets That Might Just Explain It To You”, in Huffington PostSynonyms: pick-up line
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nounSynonym of pick-up line.
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chat-up line. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chat-up%20line
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chat-up line,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chat-up%20line.
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