PUA

PUA (plural PUAs)

1. (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^[1], 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^[2]:

     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.

2. (computing) Initialism of potentially unwanted application.
3. (computing) Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).

• SPUA

• APU, AUP, Pau, UAP, UPA, pau

PUA (definite accusative PUA-nı, plural PUA-lar)

1. initialism of pilotsuz uçuş aparatı (“UAV; unmanned aircraft, drone”)

   PUA zərbəsi ― drone strike, drone attack

• pua

Borrowed from English PUA.

PUA

1. (Internet slang) Initialism of pickup artist.

PUA

1. (Internet slang) to gaslight

• 洗腦 / 洗脑 (xǐnǎo)