Meaning of on the make | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Actively seeking a romantic encounter or relationship.
   informal
2. Actively seeking an opportunity for self-advancement; eager to ingratiate oneself to others in order to secure some advantage.
   broadly, informal

Examples

“Harry (Matthew Cowles) and Tim (Timothy Meyers) are an inseparable pair of macho punks always on the make for an easy sexual score.”

“In a city where everybody was "hustling," everybody, as they phrased it, "on the make," why should anyone take a second glance at Peter Gudge?”

“She said that anyone under the age of thirty living in a resort community was on the make somehow: “pimping, dealing, hooking, detoxing, escaping, scamming, or what have you.””

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