Meanings
nounpickup artist (plural pickup artists)
plural pickup artists
- lifestyleOne 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 & antonyms
Translations
Finnish pelimies
- pelimiesTranslations
French séducteur
- séducteurTranslations
German Aufreißkünstler
- AufreißkünstlerTranslations
Russian пикапер
- пикапер (pikaper)Translations
Swedish raggningsspecialist
- raggningsspecialistTranslations
Cite this entry
APA
pickup artist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pickup%20artist
MLA
“pickup artist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pickup%20artist. Accessed November 5, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pickup artist,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pickup%20artist.
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