chat up

1. 1.

   talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions

   “The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries”

   “My husband never flirts with other women”

   Synonymsflirtdallybutterflycoquetcoquetteromancephilandermash

   Broadertalk

   Narrowerwantonvamp
2. 2.

   talk to someone with the aim of persuading him

   Broaderpersuade

Questions about chat up

What does chat up mean?

chat up means "talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for chat up?

Close synonyms include flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chat up a common word?

chat up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.