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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pua"
English
Noun
PUA (plural PUAs)
- (seduction community) Initialism of pickup artist.
- 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 1 March 2019:
- 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).
- 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 August 2020:
- 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.
- (computing) Initialism of potentially unwanted application.
- (computing) Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).
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Azerbaijani
Noun
PUA (definite accusative PUA-nı, plural PUA-lar)
- initialism of pilotsuz uçuş aparatı (“UAV; unmanned aircraft, drone”)
- PUA zərbəsi ― drone strike, drone attack
Declension
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Chinese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: pīyōu'ēi
- Zhuyin: ㄆㄧ ㄧㄡ ㄟ
- Tongyong Pinyin: piyou-ei
- Wade–Giles: pʻi1-yu1-ei1
- Yale: pī-yōu-ēi
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: piiouei
- Palladius: пию’эй (piju’ej)
- Sinological IPA (key): /pʰi⁵⁵ joʊ̯⁵⁵ ˀeɪ̯⁵⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Note: or more precisely, [piː˥juː˥eɪ˥].
Noun
PUA
- (Internet slang) Initialism of pickup artist.
Verb
PUA
See also
German
Pronunciation
Noun
PUA m (strong, genitive PUA, plural PUAe)
- initialism of parlamentarischer Untersuchungsausschuss
- Alternative form: Pua
- 2025 October 13, Maximilian Plück, “Abschlussbericht sieht Justizminister Limbach entlastet”, in Westfalen-Blatt, number 238, published 14 October 2025, page WB4:
- 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.
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Declension
Declension of PUA [masculine, strong]
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Spanish
Etymology
Noun
PUA m (plural PUA)
- PUA
- 2025 April 19, Manuela Castro, “Regla 80/20, la teoría misógina de "Adolescence": qué sabemos en realidad sobre los vínculos entre hombres y mujeres”, in CNN en Español:
- 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”.
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