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make a pass en · VERB

Meanings

1. To unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been involved with.
   • You know, all those nights we stayed up talking…How come you never made a pass at me? 1985, Joel Schumacher, Carl Kurlander, St. Elmo's Fire (motion picture), spoken by Julianna "Jules" Van Patten (Demi Moore):
   • He clumsily made a pass at the prom queen, and she responded with a scowl.
   • Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses. 1926, Dorothy Parker, “News Item”, in Enough Rope, page 85:
   • One night, with their inhibitions loosened by moonshine, Jack makes a pass at Ennis and the two men have sex in a tent 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC:

Forms

Relateds

hit on · proposition · flirt · make the passes

Translations (9)

hu kikezd (to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been sexually involved with) · es insinuarse (to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been sexually involved with) · pl przystawić się (to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been sexually involved with) · pl przystawiać się (to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been sexually involved with) · ru подкатывать (to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been sexually involved with) · pl dobrać się (to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been sexually involved with) · pl dobierać się (to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been sexually involved with) · ru приударить (to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been sexually involved with) · es propasarse con (to unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been sexually involved with)