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PUA
PUA
(neologism c. 2019) to exert control over (sb) by means of psychological manipulation (e.g. negging)
a person who does so (loanword from "pickup artist")
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the degree of suspicion that a woman might, after she marries, cheat on her husband (abbr. for "paternity uncertainty")
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(slang) (Tw) to steal