Meaning of come-on | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something intended to attract, as in an advertisement.
   informal
2. A statement or sometimes an action reflecting sexual or romantic interest.
   informal
3. A bad actor whose talents do not extend far beyond walking onto the stage.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“The free offers are just come-ons to get⟳ you in the store so the sales staff can work⟳ on you.”

“He's got a come-on from New Jersey that I'm to steer⟳ to the turning joint.”

“I thought he'd asked me to lunch to discuss⟳ business; I wasn't expecting a come-on.”

“I come⟳ looking for a job But I get⟳ no offers Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue”

“What I'm saying is - and this is not a come-on in any way, shape⟳ or form⟳ - is that men and women can't be friends because the sex part always gets in the way.”

“When the public no longer rushed to the box-office to buy⟳ such synthetic exaltations of the spirit, pitchmen like⟳ Jerome K. Jerome and the aforesaid Kennedy got out their theopathic apparatus and had at the trade⟳ with elixirs in which actors, their faces chalked into a pallor exceeding Nicky Arnstein's, were programmed as A Stranger, A Wayfarer, or Manson and, by conducting themselves for the major portion of two hours like⟳ overly verbose and objectionable pallbearers, peculiarly persuaded the come-ons that they were replicas of Christ and that the rest⟳ of the cast⟳, a bunch of low-lifes, were converted to the faith by them.”

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