to start a conversation with someone because you want to have a sexual or romantic relationship with them
Guapo tried to chat up a very attractive woman from Wales, who was over in Nicaragua to help lay telephone wires.
I wanted to chat her up like I would chat up a cutie in a bar.
Listen to this: ``Can't find the one of your dreams and too lazy to chat up another frog?
When I left, Sally was getting chatted up by the barman.
fluent, I shall wander forth and chat up some of the local talent.
chats up
chatting up
chatted up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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