To pick (someone) up has been slang for having a casual sexual encounter with a person since at least the 1600s. Pick-up is an adjective that describes a line, or rehearsed statement, intended to start a conversation with someone in order to pursue them romantically or sexually.
"Beg pardon, ma'am, I'm new here in town, just in from Houston, Texas, and looking for the Statue of Liberty," Joe Buck (Jon Voight) says to a rich lady in the classic 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, when he says to her: "Beg pardon, ma'am, I'm new here in town, just in from Houston, Texas, and looking for the Statue of Liberty."
In the 1980s, the term "pickup line" became popular, and by the 1990s, it had become synonymous with men's clothing.In the 1980s, the term "pickup line" became linked with men's ill-advised attempts to talk to women at bars (for example, a man asking a woman, "Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?"). "Do I know you? 'Cause you look a lot like my next girlfriend." is an example of a pickup line that starts with a question and ends with a punchline.
"Beg pardon, ma'am, I'm new here in town, just in from Houston, Texas, and looking for the Statue of Liberty," Joe Buck (Jon Voight) says to a rich lady in the classic 1969 film Midnight Cowboy, when he says to her: "Beg pardon, ma'am, I'm new here in town, just in from Houston, Texas, and looking for the Statue of Liberty."
In the 1980s, the term "pickup line" became popular, and by the 1990s, it had become synonymous with men's clothing.In the 1980s, the term "pickup line" became linked with men's ill-advised attempts to talk to women at bars (for example, a man asking a woman, "Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?"). "Do I know you? 'Cause you look a lot like my next girlfriend." is an example of a pickup line that starts with a question and ends with a punchline.
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