come-onˈcome-on noun [countable usually singular] informalExamples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
The free stationery is just a come-on; we want to get kids writing to penpals around the world.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
But his basic belief was so widespread that gay men themselves sometimes used it as a come-on.
But it's the undertow of precocious sexuality, the child-woman come-on, that's more worrying.
Four years ago, he was a bit tentative in his come-on.
Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last, he readily accepted.
Instead there was true obscenity, the obscenity of deceitfulness and come-on lies.
It's a come-on for their other-paid-for-services.
Others want to keep him in action where he is, a historical fact and tourist come-on.
Will women respond to the Republicans' simplistic come-on?
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►give somebody the come-on
(=do something to show you are sexually interested in someone)
something that someone does deliberately to make someone else sexually interested in them: Rick’s the kind of guy who thinks every smile is a come-on.give somebody the come-on (=do something to show you are sexually interested in someone) → come on to somebody/somethingat come on