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come-on

 noun
     
come-on [countable usually singular] informal
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/something

at come on (2)
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