chat up
phrasal verbchat somebody up
- (British English, informal) to talk in a friendly way to somebody you are sexually attracted to, perhaps hoping to start a relationship with them
- She went straight over and tried to chat him up.
- John was busy chatting up the new girl in his class.
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