chatted up

Flirted with words

To chat someone up is to engage them in friendly, often flirtatious conversation, typically with romantic or sexual intent: He chatted her up at the bar.

In British usage, chatting up can also mean talking to someone to gain favor or persuade them: She chatted up the bouncer to skip the line.

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wooed · chattered · courted · sweet-talked · smooth talked · seduced · joked · gabbed · charmed · mingled · teased · bantered · complimented · propositioned · discussed · engaged · hit on · picked up

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social attention and engagement

chatted upignored

Purposely not noticed

snubbed · blanked · brushed off · cold-shouldered · overlooked

romantic/flirtatious intent

chatted uprejected

Refused or turned away

rebuffed · shot down · turned down · spurned · blew off

verbal engagement

chatted upstonewalled

Deliberately unresponsive

shut out · shut down

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