chat up

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

chat up (third-person singular simple present chats up, present participle chatting up, simple past and past participle chatted up)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To talk to (someone) in a friendly, open, or casual manner, sometimes also in a charming or affected manner, usually to curry favor, and sometimes flirtatiously with the intention of establishing a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship with that person.

   Have you been chatting up my girlfriend?

   He spent all evening chatting her up.

Translations

talk in a charming manner

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 搭訕 / 搭讪 (zh) (dāshàn) Dutch: versieren (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Finnish: liehitellä (fi) French: draguer (fr) German: anquatschen (de) Italian: please add this translation if you can Polish: gawędzić (pl) impf, podrywać (pl) impf, poderwać (pl) pf, flirtować (pl) impf Portuguese: cantar (pt) (Brazil) Russian: please add this translation if you can Spanish: chamuyar (es), camelar (es), tirar los trastos (es), echar los perros (es), cepillar (es), dar jabón a Thai: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: bắt chuyện, thả thính (vi), tán tỉnh (vi)

attempt to establish a sexual relationship — see also flirt

French: (colloquial) emballer (fr), (colloquial) allumer (fr), draguer (fr) German: anbaggern (de) Polish: podrywać (pl) impf, poderwać (pl) pf Portuguese: dar em cima de (Brazil) Spanish: ligotear, tratar de ligar con

See also

• hit on
• pick up
• talk to

Anagrams

• Chaput, tach up