pickup artist

pickup artist (plural pickup artists)

1. One who uses specialized tactics to seduce women.

   Synonyms: PUA, player

   • 2004 January 25, Neil Strauss, “HE AIMS! HE SHOOTS! YES!!”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     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.