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There are a lot of terms thrown around in both Western PU literature and Japanese nampa. Here are a few of the most common. Note that for the most part, I am not passing any judgments on these terms, just providing them as they are commonly used.

AA - Approach anxiety. Widely considered to be the single largest "sticking point" or barrier which guys have to doing pickup, especially cold approach.
AFC - Average Frustrated Chump. Guy who isn't satisfied with his love life, isn't good with women, and either doesn't know or refuses to accept that he's bad with women.
AMOG - Alpha Male of Group (see also JMOG). Essentially the male leader of the group you are trying to mingle with, who is/will challenge you as newcomer. Dealing with him is essential, either by befriending him or neutralizing him. AMOG tactics can also refer to entering a group and tooling the guys / blowing the guys out (getting the guys to leave). Such tactics could be - body blocking / excluding them from the conversation, building them up and complimenting them excessively, locking on completely to the girl you like, etc.
Approach - To go up and talk to a woman (especially used as cold approach)
Approval-seeking - The standard way most AFCs interact with women. Rather than expressing themselves normally and honestly they try to seek her approval and have a "pleasant" interaction.
ASD - Anti-slut Defense. Any objection or resistance to going into isolation or moving things forward sexually with a guy which is exhibited for the purpose of giving the guy or surrounding people (friends, other guys, etc) the impression that the girl is "not that kinda girl" or "doesn't do these things so fast". Also known as "token resistance".
Aura - A girl's energetic state. Should be adjusted for and calibrate your open to this.
番ゲ - Bange - To get a phone number from a girl
BC - Bootcamp. A short, often multi-day program aimed at teaching the basics of pickup and getting guys past AA and all the normal barriers and objections.
BT - Buying temperature. Essentially, how "warmed up" or primed for sex a girl is. The high end would be, for example mid-coitus, where the girl is more likely to do anything. The low end would be at a funeral, business meeting, or church, where she would be quite resistant to anything sexual (except those freaky ones!). Buying temperature can be "spiked" with motion, excitement, and emotion. Spiking buying temperature should be done before escalating on a girl or bouncing her.
Bitch Shield - A predisposition to be negative or dismissive to guys who come up to a girl. Notably, this term includes the assumption that it is not the girl's normal behavior - with friends she is not like this. Rather, it is something she "activates" either consciously or unconsciously in order to fend off hordes of suitors or make them "prove their merit" by defusing the shield. A screening tool.
Bounce - To move the girl/group to another location or venue.
Calibration - Offering the proper response in each situation. Being neither too "hard" and aggressive, nor too "soft" and a push-over. One of the hardest / longest to develop properly. Most guys start off far too soft weak, and push-overs, then go through being very hard and obnoxious, before settling down in a nice middle ground.
Close - to achieve a result or conclusion to an interaction.
Variations:
@Close - get a girl's email
#Close - get a girl's number
Line Close - get a girl's LINE
Kissclose - kiss a girl
Fclose - have sex with a girl
Charai - チャラい A player, playboy, etc. (adj).
"Chosen One" - A name for a girl who regularly brings new women into the fold with the intention of hooking them up with guys. Provider of sexual partners. Accomplice, ally (especially in group situations).
Cold Read - Inferring / Guessing something about a girl without any or much prior information. Example - "You look like a nurse."
Compliance - How much a girl is willing to do for you. Will she hold your drink? Will she move to another area of the bar / venue? Will she jump up and down and clap her hands? Anything designed to "test" that is called a compliance test.
D2 - Day 2, which in pickup parlance is the first date, NOT the second date. It is the second encounter. D3, etc keeps going up after that.
DHV - Demonstration of Higher Value. Like bragging, but ideally more subtle. Examples might include telling a story about a model you used to date, a cool country you visited, or what kind of car you drive.
DLV - Demonstration of Lower Value. "Negging" yourself. Examples might include, calling yourself a dork, saying you're hopeless with women, or that you live in a cardboard box in Chuo Park.
Disqualify / Disqualification - Demonstrate to the girl that you are either uninterested in her as a sexual partner, or uninterested period. Examples might include "Don't worry, I only like tall girls, you're safe."
DTF - Down to Fuck.
Escalate - To "make a move". Basically, to start touching her more sexually and kissing.
EV - Eliciting Values. To ask questions, tell stories, or any other behavior intended to get the girl to tell you what she values.
Eject - To leave an interaction with a girl for whatever reason.
Flake - When someone cancels on a date / doesn't show up
Frame - Your grasp on reality / the lens through which you choose to view the world. Will be challenged thoroughly by women. If your frame is weak, you will lose many sets.
Game - A person's attempts to sleep with another person. It can be good or bad.
Gamer - A person who tries to improve their game over time.
Grenade - A girl in a 2-set (or a larger group) who is very unattractive, but somebody has to "jump on it" and talk to her for a significant amount of time so the other guy can get in with the attractive one.
Guda - グダ - Excuse / test.
Hat Trick - having sex with three women in one day.
HB - Hot Babe. Sometimes followed with a number, such as "HB 7" which means a hot girl who is a 7/10. Alternatively, followed with a nickname (to avoid using the girls' real name on a forum) for example "HB Bunny ears"
High Value - To have value, worth, merit. This can come in the way of lifestyle, money, social status, good energy, leadership, etc.
Hook - To get to the point in the interaction at which the girl is interested in staying and chatting.
IOD - Indicator of Disinterest (from the girl). Examples would be checking her phone, looking away from you when you talk, not asking questions in return.
IOI - Indicator of Interest (from the girl). Examples would be making eye contact with you, licking her lips, twirling her hair, positioning herself near you, etc.
Kino - Touching a girl. There is a ton of theory / ideas about how and when to do this.
Keyboard Jockey - a guy who talks a lot about pickup like he knows what he's doing, but never actually goes out and talks to women.
LDR - Long-distance relationship
LJBF - Let's just be friends. Can be used as a verb as in "I was LJBF'd"
LTR - Long-term relationship
LMR - Last minute resistance. Resistance at the final stage - right before sex.
MLTR - Multiple long-term relationships. AKA, a "harem".
Mochikaeri - 持ち帰り - Taking a girl home (esp. from a club/bar)
Monologuing - A mix of assumptions, questions, and statements about both yourself and the girl delivered in a paratactic manner and with the specific application of women who don't open easily, such as fast-walking hostesses in kabukicho.
Moteru - モテる - To be popular. Not quite the same as pickup or charai. More of a positive connotation.
Moteki - モテキ - Period in your life when you have a lot of unexpected success with women.
Nanpa / Nampa - ナンパ - Talking to unknown women on the street for the purpose of having a sexual encounter.
Neg - The much maligned "negative expression." At its worst, it is an insult for weak men to use to "knock a girl down a peg." At its best, it is not shying away from negative topics and expressing a full range of emotions in a conversation, not just seeing the world through artificial rose colored glasses and having a fake "everything is peachy" attitude because you don't want to lose the girl.
Neta - ネタ - (J nanpa term) - Technique, material.
ONS - One night stand.
Open - To initiate an interaction with a girl.
Opener - what you use to first make contact with a girl.
Ping - to text a girl something random to keep the conversation going / to stay on her radar.
PU - Pickup. Can refer to either a single encounter, or the entire discipline.
PUA - Pickup Artist - person who tries to repeatedly pick up women. (Especially, a Western practitioner of game).
Push-pull - The dance between expressing interest and disinterest, both pulling the girl to you and pushing her away from you in alternations (can be physical, verbal, emotional, etc).
Pull - to bring the girl somewhere else, especially to your house / a love hotel.
Qualify - To tell a girl what you like about her.
RAS - Reticular Activation System. The part of your brain which processes external stimuli and filters out the unimportant from the important. A part of your attention and focus.
Regular - A girl who you see regularly. A sex friend.
Set - A group of people who you are talking to. Usually preceded with a number (how many people). Example - "That two-set over there looks nice!" Also: mixed-set = men and women together.
SDL - Same day lay
Shit Test - A random objection or hurdle thrown out by a woman to "test" the guy's frame and resolve. Examples might be "You're ugly" or "Buy us a drink!"
SIMP - Someone Idolizing Mediocre Pussy (included this one for @Solong )
SNL - Same night lay
SNO - Same night orgy
SMV - Sexual Market Value
State - Your mental state, general energy levels. Can fluctuate through the night, often with positive and negative experiences. Peak state could be seen as a buzzing energy of potentiality, not necessarily "high" energy, but certainly open and aware. When in peak state, sets open very easily.
Token Resistance - Half-hearted resistance, insincere resistance.
Wanchan - ワンチャン - One night stand. "One chance"


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If I missed anything, feel free to add it or ask in the comments. Perhaps at a later point I'll add some of my own thoughts on some of these terms.
 
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Ganshika - ガンシカ - being blanked by a girl during an approach, in which she deliberately and completely ignores the approacher.

Gudakuzushi - グダ崩し - destroying the spurious objections ("guda") women produce to resist a nanpa attempt.

Jizou - 地蔵 - being petrified and standing by the street unable to approach like the stone statue so named. The result of the nanpa-shi becoming demoralized by failure or unable to muster the courage to approach in the first place.

Sutonan - ストナン - "street nanpa", nanpa taking place in the street.

Tsuredasu - 連れ出す - Japanese verb "to take out with", meaning taking a girl from the venue she was approached in to another venue.

Day game: game taking place in a "daytime" venue, in practice anywhere which is not "night" or "social circle".

Night game: game taking place at a "night" venue, typically one which serves alcohol at night (a bar or club).

AWALT - All Women Are Like That, typically used by Red Pill types to castigate "typical" female behaviour like monkey branching.

Monkey branching - female hypergamy in a relationship, i.e. a woman with a boyfriend secretly preparing a superior partner. A monkey swinging from branch to branch only lets go of the current branch when it has a firm grip on the next branch.

Direct approach/game - an approach initiated with a clear expression of sexual interest. Likely to be perceived as bold and shot down rapidly. Chokusetsukei/直接系 in Japanese.

Indirect approach/game - an approach initiated with an indirect conversation, ranging from a simple conversational opener to an elaborate ruse involving asking for directions. Kansetsusetsukei/間接系 in Japanese.

Instadate - "bouncing" an approachee from the scene of the approach to another venue for a date rather than taking contacts and arranging a date at a later date.

FTC - false time constraint, the approacher giving some reason why they will be leaving soon at the start of the interaction so the interlocutor does not think they are going to be stuck talking to you. Also commonly used by females to stop dates from progressing.

Preselection - male attractiveness to a specific female may be increased if she sees him as being previously selected by other women (especially ones more desirable than she is), which assures her other women see something to him and he has his stuff together.

Social Proof - an indicator of social standing which increases a male's value in the eyes of viewing females. For example, being introduced by a friend or being a respected regular at a venue.

Japanese equivalent of "eject" would be houryuu/放流... to release your catch.

Some of the abbreviations listed have varied versions (SIMP for example), but there are not really any authoritative sources. I think "monloguing" and your use of "parataxis" there are your own terms rather than general ones. It sounds a bit pretentious, to be honest.
 
I forgot the most important one, or at least the one you'll be using the most in Japan:

Dotakyan/ドタキャン - to cancel an appointment, typically the day or a few hours beforehand. Not quite the same as flaking or standing up as there is an explicit cancellation rather than radio silence or a no show, although the excuses offered are typically transparently false. Delete the girl from your contacts immediately.
 
Hat Trick - also means having sex for the third time during a 'date.."

"We did it again before breakfast, as I went for the Hat Trick before we left for work."
 
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