chat up

verb

chatted up; chatting up; chats up

informal

: to talk informally with (someone, such as someone one is attracted to)

He tried to chat up a girl at the dance.

Examples of chat up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Argano meanwhile chats up a firefighter from France and his wife and then invites them into the station. — Philip Marcelo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

Three years after chatting up his last eccentric stranger on HBO, the deadpan documentarian returns with what basically amounts to a feature-length How To episode. — A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

Her content is mainly focused on chatting up unsuspecting males in public, whose reactions are secretly filmed. — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

While on Ryan Ripken’s podcast, Sutcliffe talked about the wedding of the century and chatting up a music legend. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for chat up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup