chat up

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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)

(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
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

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