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make a pass (third-person singular simple present makes a pass, present participle making a pass, simple past and past participle made a pass) [with at]

1. To unambiguously indicate interest in romantic or sexual involvement to someone the speaker has not previously been sexually involved with.

   He clumsily made a pass at the prom queen, and she responded with a scowl.

   • 1926, Dorothy Parker, “News Item”, in Enough Rope, page 85:

     Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses.

   • 1985, Joel Schumacher, Carl Kurlander, St. Elmo's Fire (motion picture), spoken by Julianna "Jules" Van Patten (Demi Moore):

     You know, all those nights we stayed up talking…How come you never made a pass at me?

   • 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC‎:

     One night, with their inhibitions loosened by moonshine, Jack makes a pass at Ennis and the two men have sex in a tent