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chat up

vb. (context transitive idiomatic English) 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.

WordNet
chat up
  1. v. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" [syn: flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash]

  2. talk to someone with the aim of persuading him

Usage examples of "chat up".

But today, because she was driving down to Brighton to chat up some rich uncle who had no children, she wouldn’.

He wanted to speak again to the old men lounging under cool trees sipping their green tea and anxious to chat up anyone willing to linger.

But the instructor had criticized their deportment just once too often, and they were now taking comfort in bottles of champagne purloined from the kitchens, and trying to chat up the security guards.