Pua

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A scraper or stick used to play a guiro.
  2. 2
    Initialism of pickup artist. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "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)."

  3. 3
    Initialism of potentially unwanted application. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use). abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Hokkien. Philippines

Synonyms

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pickup artistpickup artist

Example

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"Pua is going to sing at church."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Pua, from Hokkien 潘 (Phoaⁿ).

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