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chat up

verb

  1. to talk flirtatiously to (a person), esp with the intention of seducing him or her
  2. to talk persuasively to (a person), esp with an ulterior motive


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Before long, however, he began to feel out of place and went back downstairs for a while to chat up the cook.

Fey and Poehler joked during the January telecast about seeing Swift chat up Michael J. Fox's son, Sam.

She may drift into the Sargasso Sea of daytime television, where she can chat up B-list celebrities.

On these forays, according to these sources, he liked to  chat up pretty single women, a glass of white wine in hand.

On these forays, according to these sources, he liked to chat up pretty single women, a glass of white wine in hand.

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