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| 3 Second Rule | Must approach a set within 3 seconds to avoid over-thinking, bailing, or risking the target seeing you stall creating a DLV. Men who wait before approaching appear weak, creepy. Credit: Mystery's Book: The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed |
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| AFOG | Alpha Female of Group | Woman who is the leader of a group of women. Almost every group of females has one. She will make most decisions and respond first to most approaches, even when approach was not directed towards her. In pickup, you must win her over first before escalating with her followers. |
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| AMOG | Alpha Male Other Guy | (also: Alpha Male Of Group) May or may not be a BF of target, but asserts himself as leader of a group. He will try to break your game, usually with challenges to your material, but possibly may escalate to intimidation or violence. Usually an AFC, but some PUAs practice this. |
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| Anchor | Associating an emotion to a physical thing. To set an anchor, create a positive emotional state and provide a unique trigger. Later, use that trigger to recall that emotion. |
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| ASD | Anti-Slut Defense | Women's internal mechanism to make sure it doesn't appear to herself and others that she's too easily seduced. This is overcome with good gaming, extended comfort building, multiple location changes, and spending the appropriate amount of contact time in each stage. The PUA should also learn to handle women's tendancy to backward rationalize any situation -- in other words, give her away to tell herself that her actions are not her fault. Credit: Yaritai |
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| AA | Approach Anxiety | The fear of making cold first approaches on a group of women. Nearly Every man has a fear of making the initial approach, based on years of contact and trying to make friends with rude, arrogant women. AA is reduced with lots of practice, and knowledge that you have a solid strategy. |
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| AI | Approach Invitation | A women is signaling for you to approach her, with eye contact or body language. |
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| AFC | Average Frustrated Chump | The 'old style' of pickup up men by buying their time and attention with drinks, flowers, dinner, etc. The men generally have been taught failed social interaction at a young age by women (perhaps raised by women), and will cling for decades to the concept of 'just be yourself'. Often these men are angry and suicidal, and will cling for decades to their belief that women should be friends first and treated like entitled princesses. |
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| BS | Bitch Shield | Extremely attractive women (and some of those who are not) often pretend to be a 'bitch', even when they're not, to prevent an endless stream of no-game men (AFCs) from hitting on them. |
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| Blur | When a woman doesn't answer or return phone calls. Usually caused by errors made by PUA when getting the number (# close), such as: Keep talking to target at least 5 minutes after you get the number, or getting the number too quickly (before building attraction and DHVs). |
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| BL | Body Language | Positioning of the body in a way that carries a certain meaning to others. For example, crossed arms mean the person is guarded, and does not want to be approached. |
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| BF | Boyfriend | Person in an exclusive relationship. Note that women often say they have a boyfriend when they don't (in early stages of pickup), so PUAs ignore the statement of boyfriend unless there is evidence he really exists. Otherwise, PUAs are generally respectful of established relationships. |
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| BT | Buying Temperature | Level of difficulty of seduction for a particular woman or group of women. Credit: Tyler Durden |
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| Calibrate | Accurate guage the reaction of your target and the effectiveness of your game |
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| Canned Routines | Pre-written routines that you can use in any situation. Pros: It's been field tested and known to work. Cons: HB's may have heard it before, and bust you on using someone else's material. |
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| Caveman | Non-verbally escalate seduction, as a caveman would do before language developed |
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| CB | Cockblock | Friend of target who tries to distract or prevent target from being seduce. The CB may have explicit or implicit instructions from target, or may simply be a frustrated woman who doesn't want ANYONE to get laid. CB's must be neutralized -before- attempting to isolate target by making her laugh and being her friend. |
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| CF | Cocky Funny | Behaving in a way that is humorous, but playfully arrogant Credit: Mastery with Women & Dating DVD Program by David DeAngelo |
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| Crash and Burn | Getting badly, rudely, or aggressively blown out of a set. |
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| DVH | Demonstration of Higher Value | Statements, actions, or stories that convey high value as measured by the female mind. Used in attraction building to make the PUA stand out from the others. Examples - standing a walking with confidence, speaking with authority, telling stories about visiting interesting places or mentioning you have interesting friends, jobs, etc. |
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| DLV | Demonstration of Lower Value | Statements, actions, or stories that convey LOW as measured by the female mind. AFCs do this by often, sometimes by accident. Examples - standing a walking with a slouch, allowing others to talk over you and change the subject, telling stories that are boring and go nowhere. |
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| DDB | Doggie Dinner Bowl look | When the girl gets big trance-like eyes, much like a dog waiting to be fed. Her head will be facing about a foot below your eyes, but her eyes will be rolled upwards to look into yours. Credit: Ross Jeffries Book: How to Get the Women You Desire into Bed |
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| @Close | Email Close | Getting a woman's email address. This is not as good as getting a phone number. |
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| FB | F!ck Buddy | Person with whom a person engages in frequent, consentual sex without expectations of a relationship. While many women will openly condemn this kind of activity, they will often engage in the practice secretly, and openly (and often publicly) condemn any man whose sexual skills are not sharp because he is out of practice. |
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| FTC | False Time Constraint | Pretend you are busy with something else to prevent set from ignoring you thinking you may never go away if they show attention. Examples: "I can only stay a minute..." , "I need to get back to my friends in a second, but I wanted to ask you..." |
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| FR | Field Report | Written report posted on the internet of results of sarging. They are generally written with great detail, highlighting which approaches and techniques worked and which ones did not, so that others may learn. Offshoots of this are the LR (Lay Report), which sometimes seem to be more of BR (Brag Report). |
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| Field Test | Use of routines in real world situations, and note results. |
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| Flake | Woman who cancels or fails to show up for a date. Can also mean woman who gives you her number, but screens your calls (doesn't answer) and does not return voice messages. |
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| Freeze Out | Ignoring another person for doing something unwanted. Can be very obvious - such as saying 'Im not talking to you anymore' and turning back, or barely noticable, such as turning slightly away a giving more attention to another person. |
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| Gambit | Canned material, usually short, used to keep conversation going or even start it up in some cases. Consider it as ammunition in your arsenal. |
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| Sets | Group of people | A Set is a group of any number of people that appear to be together. Usually the term is used to descibe group of people sitting or standing together as a group, and often is used with a number to designate the number of people in the group. Example: a 3-set is a group of 3 people of any gender. A 2-1 Set is 2 females and 1 male. |
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| Group Theory | Women almost always go out in groups, and to pick up a woman in a group the man must simultaneously win the approval of her friends while actively demonstrating a lack of interest in the target. Attractive women generally hang out with attractive friends. Credit: Mystery's Book: The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed |
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| F Close | Having Sex | If you don't understand this, turn off your computer now. |
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| Hired Guns | Women who work in the service industry and have direct contact with customers, such as strippers, waitresses, flight attendants. These women are often hired for their attractiveness. Credit: Mystery's Book: The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed |
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| Hook Point | The point at which a woman decided she is interested in the PUA. Credit: Style's Book: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists |
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| Hoop Theory | When a girl asks you to do something for her, she is getting you to jump through a hoop. AFCs will jump straight through and do whatever is asked with no hesitation, showing supplication, compliance, and beta-male tendancies. |
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| HB | Hot Babe | Very attractive woman. Sometimes followed by a number to undicate the level of hotness on the 1 - 10 scale. Example: HB9 |
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| IOD | Indicator of Disinterest | An action, statement, gesture, or body language that conveys that a person is not interested in what you are saying to doing. Examples: looking away, rolling eyes upward, leaving the group, turning away, or saying "get lost, loser!". Credit: Mystery |
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| IOI | Indicator of Interest | An action, statement, gesture, or body language that conveys that a person is not interested in what you are saying to doing. Examples: touching hair or lips, asking your name, touching your arm, smiling. Credit: Mystery |
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| KJ | Keyboard Jockey | Person who spends more time online posting about PUA than actually practicing it. |
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| Kino | (short for kinesthesia) touching or being touched, with the intent to estblish comfort and rapport. Expamples: handholding, hip-grabbing, touching the arm. |
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| LMR | Last Minute Resistance | Woman puts up resistance to sexual advances after consenting, often enroute to sex location. Caused when PUA fails to properly disarm ASD, or allows CB or orbiter to interfere. |
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| LJBF | Lets Just Be Friends | Statement a woman makes to the PUA when he has failed at his game. There is rarely a recovery from this. |
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| MPB | Male Pattern Blindness | Male who consistantly fails to notice women's IOI until after she leaves. |
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| MCR | Mini cold read | |
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| mASF | Moderated PUA Newsgroup | alt.seduction.fast.* |
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| MM | Mystery Method | Seduction Theory books and bootcamps founded by Mystery Credit: Mystery |
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| Natural | Man adept at attracting and seducing women without training |
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| NLP | Neuro Linguistic Programming | Far too complicated for a simplistic definition. One of several bases of theory used by PUAs, particularly with inspiring positive emotions and anchoring those emotions with the PUA, building attraction. |
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| Nonversation | A conversation where one person isn't paying attention to what the other is saying.
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| #Close | Number Close | Getting the target's phone number |
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| Obstacle | Person who blocks you from pursuing the target. Also see Orbiter. Credit: Mystery |
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| Neg | Offhanded Compliment with possible insult | When building interest and attraction (the first 2 stages of pickup) wth a very attractive woman in a competitive environment (such as a nightclub), the best initial approach is an offhanded compliment, often called a 'neg'. It should NOT be an open insult, and should be delivered with a facial expression, tone, and body language to convey that you are being playful, not insulting. Example: "Nice shoes -- did you buy those new?" or "Love your hairstyle -- did your mom do it for you?" Credit: Mystery |
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| Opener | A Neg, comment, statement, or story told upon approach to a Set or person. If can be canned (scripted), or improvised (spontaneous). For PUAs, it almost never shows interest in target or gives a clue that the approach was for pickup. |
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| Orbiter | Male(s) in a mixed set (group of people composed of both males and females) who claims to be 'just friends' with a target, but in reality wants to sleep with her. |
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| Pawn | Behaving in a friendly manner towards and attractive woman or group of people the PUA may or may not know in order to DHV and show Social Proof. Credit: Mystery |
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| Peacock | Wearing something interesting and unusual to attract attention. Example: goggles or a cowboy hat Credit: Mystery |
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| Pecking | Leaning forward whenever you speak, which is something to be avoided. Leaning back prevents intruding on their personal space, and doesn't make you look needy. |
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| PUA | PickUp Artist | Person who studies and practices current methods of successfully meeting, attracting, and starting a relationship with high value women. It is far more than just cheesy pickup lines and getting phone numbers -- it's proven, field tested strategies emphasizing what actually works, not what SHOULD work. |
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| Pivot | Woman working with the PUA to develop jealousy from target, as well as DHV, show social proof, and female pre-selection. Credit: Mystery |
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| Player | Man who picks up as man women as possible to gain ego boost. PUA community members generally do not describe themselves as Players because PUAs work to set up the foundation of a healthy workable relationship, not just getting phone numbers or getting laid. PUA is about how to attract, seduce, and KEEP a high value woman in your life. |
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| rAFC | Reformed Average Frustrated Chump | AFC who is learning ways to attract women that actually work. |
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| rFTC | Reverse False Time Constraint | Inspiring guilt to hold frame, for example by saying your friends haven't shown up yet |
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| Roll Off | Walk away from target unexpectedly to talk to someone else. usually with the purpose of showing the target that she needs to be interesting and entertaining to you or she will lose you. |
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| Sarge | The act of explicitly going out and picking up women using pick-up and seduction techniques. Generally in a group (with wingmen), but can be done alone. |
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| Day2 | Second Date | Second date or meeting - generally made very soon after the first meeting. |
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| Sh!t Test | (AKA 'Congruence Test') Women often test their partners by saying something irrelevant or antagonistic, to see how the PUA handles adversity, or 'see what you're made of'. Example: "Are you gay?" If the PUA becomes embarrassed or defense, he fails the test. In general, the best response is to mockingly agree with the statement and continue conversation, or ignore/dismiss the statement by rolling the eyes and continuing. In general, The Sh!t test is an IOI. |
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| Social Proof | Women want to know that men have many interesting friends; they don't like 'loners'. It's a DHV to be seen with other men who know you. |
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| SHB | Super Hot Babe | Extremely attractive woman. |
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| Target | Girl you are trying to pick up or seduce. |
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| Time Bridge | Plan a date with target, but maintain interest level and excitement by planning it to happen soon, and 'talk up' what the experience is going to be. |
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