The Game

makeout. Also: k-close or *close. Origin: Mystery.

    LJBF — verb or adjective [let’s just be friends]: a statement a woman makes to a man to indicate that she is not sexually or romantically interested in him. One can hear an LJBF speech or get LJBF’ed.

    LMR — noun [last minute resistance]: an occurrence, often after kissing, in which a woman who desires a man prevents him, through words or actions, from progressing toward more intimate sexual contact, such as removing her bra, putting his hand down her pants, or penetration.

    LSE — adjective [low self-esteem]: used to describe a woman who is insecure and tends to engage in self-effacing or self-destructive behavior. Origin: MrSex4uNYC.

    LTR — noun [long-term relationship]: a girlfriend.

    MANAGE EXPECTATIONS — verb: to let a woman know before sleeping with her roughly how committed a relationship one intends to have with her, so that she does not expect too much or too little.

    MLTR — noun [multiple long-term relationship]: a woman who is part of a harem, or one of many girlfriends a pickup artist is currently seeing and sleeping with. Ideally, the pickup artist is honest with his MLTRs and informs them that he is seeing other women. Origin: Svengali.

    MM — noun [Mystery Method]: a school of seduction started by Mystery that focuses on indirect group approaches. Origin: Mystery.

    MODEL — verb: to observe and imitate the behavior of another person, typically someone who possesses a trait or skill one wishes to acquire. Origin: Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

    MPB — noun [male pattern blindness]: some men’s inability to recognize that a woman is attracted to and interested in him until after she leaves and it’s too late to act on it. Origin: Vincent.

    MPUA — noun [master pickup artist]: a player who excels at the game, and whose skills put him in the top 1 percent of the seduction community.

    MYSTERY’S LOUNGE — noun: a private, members-only online forum where many of the leading pickup artists in the community exchange techniques, photographs, and field reports. Origin: Mystery.

    NEG — noun: an ambiguous statement or seemingly accidental insult delivered to a beautiful woman a pickup artist has just met, with the intent of actively demonstrating to her (or her friends) a lack of interest in her. For example:“Those are nice nails; are they real?” 2. Verb: to actively demonstrate a lack of interest in a beautiful woman by making an ambiguous statement, insulting her in a way that appears accidental, or offering constructive criticism. Also: neg hit. Origin: Mystery.

    NEWBIE MISSION — noun: an exercise designed to help shy men overcome their fear of approaching women. The newbie mission involves spending a day in a public area, such as a mall, and saying “hi” to every woman who passes by.

    NLP — noun [neuro-linguistic programming]: a school of hypnosis developed in the 1970s based largely on the techniques of Milton Erickson. Unlike traditional hypnosis, in which subjects are put to sleep, it is a form of waking hypnosis in which subtle conversational cues and physical gestures are used to influence a person on a subconscious level. Origin: Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

    NONVERSATION — noun: a conversation in which one person isn’t paying attention to what the other person is saying, generally due to lack of interest or being distracted. Origin: Style.

    NUMBER-CLOSE —1. verb: to obtain a correct phone number from a woman. Note that giving a woman one’s own number does not constitute a numberclose. 2. noun: a woman’s phone number, obtained during the course of a pickup. Also: #close. Origin: Mystery.

    OBSTACLE — noun: the person or people in a group whom the pickup artist does not desire, but whom he must win over in order to run game on the woman in the group he does desire. Origin: Mystery.

    ONE-ITIS — noun: 1. an obsession with a girl whom one is not dating; pickup artists believe that such an extreme fixation on one woman significantly lowers a man’s chances of dating or sleeping with her. 2. a girl with whom one is obsessed. Origin: John C. Ryan.

    OPENER — noun: a statement, question, or story used to initiate a conversation with a stranger or group of strangers. Openers may be environmental (spontaneous) or canned (pre-scripted); and direct (showing romantic or sexual interest in a woman) or indirect (not showing interest).

    OUTALPHA — verb: see AMOG.

    PAIMAI — noun