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PUA
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Appendix:Variations of "pua"
English
Noun
en seduction community en pickup artist.
Gareth May Saturday Sarge: meet the men who go hunting for women https://web.archive.org/web/20190301002207/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/11148262/Saturday-Sarge-meet-the-men-who-go-hunting-for-women.html 2014-10-18 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).
en Li Yuan For China’s Pickup Artists, Sex Is the Goal and Urging Suicide Is a Tactic w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/business/china-pickup-artists-PUA.html 2019-12-29 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20200825022203/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/29/business/china-pickup-artists-PUA.html
en computing en w:potentially unwanted application.
en computing en w:Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).
Hyponyms
en SPUA
Anagrams
en apu APU AUP Pau UAP UPA pau
en People
Azerbaijani
az:
ПУА
Pronunciation
pua
Noun
a
az pilotsuz uçuş aparatı UAV; unmanned aircraft, drone
az PUA zərbəsi drone strike, drone attack
Declension
a
Chinese
Alternative forms
zh pua
Etymology
zh en PUA.
Pronunciation
pīyōu'ēi or more precisely, [piː˥juː˥eɪ˥] v
Noun
zh noun
zh internet slang en pickup artist.
Verb
zh verb
zh internet slang to gaslight
See also
zh 洗腦
German
Pronunciation
de /ˌpeːuːˈaː/ /ˈpuːaː/
Noun
m,-,e
de parlamentarischer Untersuchungsausschuss
de Pua
de de Westfalen-Blatt Abschlussbericht sieht Justizminister Limbach entlastet Plück Maximilian 238 WB4 2025-10-13 2025-10-14 Nach dem Wechsel zu Schwarz-Grün war nach einem gemeinsamen Abendessen mit dem neuen Justizminister Benjamin Limbach (Grüne) dessen Duzfreundin Katharina Jestaedt ins Verfahren nachgerückt und hatte sich nachträglich an die Spitze gesetzt. Das sorgte für Rechtsstreitigkeiten und den Pua.
Declension
m,-,e
Spanish
Etymology
es :bor en:PUA<t:pickup artist> + 1
Noun
m #
en PUA
es Manuela Castro Regla 80/20, la teoría misógina de "Adolescence": qué sabemos en realidad sobre los vínculos entre hombres y mujeres w:CNN en Español https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/04/19/cultura/80-20-adolescence-realidad-vinculos-entre-hombres-mujeres-trax 2025-04-19 La NYU, junto a la Fiscalía de Manhattan, considera que los PUA “creen que se puede manipular el sistema social para ser más atractivos y tener más fácil acceso a citas y sexo (…) A menudo cosifican a las mujeres y promueven el acoso”. https://web.archive.org/web/20260305152421/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2025/04/19/cultura/80-20-adolescence-realidad-vinculos-entre-hombres-mujeres-trax 5 March 2026