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chats up

chats up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chat up.

Meaning of chat up

Verb

chat up (third-person singular simple present chats up, present participle chatting up, simple past and past participle chatted up)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) 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?

Questions about chats up

What is chats up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chats up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chat up.

Words near chats up in the dictionary

  1. Chatrouletters
  2. chats
  3. chats away
  4. chats shit
  5. chats shite
  6. chats up
  7. Chatsbury
  8. chatshow
  9. chatshows
  10. chatshrike
  11. chatshrikes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chats up (page history and authors); chat up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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