pickup joint

“To be very blunt about it, it was kind of an elevated pickup joint of well-exercised people,” Mr. Talese said.

It’s a message that gets a little lost in translation, sometimes, when worn in a pickup joint on the Fulham Road, but it is still there, somewhere, as the origin story of the after-dark sunglasses wearer.

Bryan, emanating an air of bitter defeat in Mr. Laurence’s chilly-eyed performance, deals with his despair by deflecting it into sarcasm and subtle digs at QZ for turning his newsletter into nothing more than a pickup joint on paper.

Some of them see the campus as a marketplace, some as a battlefield, some as a pickup joint and some as a "passing microclimate."

Unable to shake Smith's story, Lasch resorted to expressions of incredulity that two people who had met in a notorious pickup joint could be having sex only a few hours later.