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chatted up

chatted up is the simple past and past participle 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 chatted up

What is chatted up the simple past and past participle of?
Chatted up is the simple past and past participle of chat up.

Words near chatted up in the dictionary

  1. chattas
  2. chatted
  3. chatted away
  4. chatted shit
  5. chatted shite
  6. chatted up
  7. chattee
  8. chattees
  9. chattel
  10. chattel house
  11. chattel houses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chatted 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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