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
• 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)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

attempt to establish a sexual relationship

• French: (colloquial) emballer (fr), (colloquial) allumer (fr)
• German: anbaggern (de)
• Portuguese: dar em cima de (Brazil)
• Spanish: ligotear

See also

• hit on
• pick up
• talk to

Anagrams

• Chaput, tach up