flirts

Noun

flirt (plural flirts)

1. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion
   • several little flirts and vibrations1711 July 7 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, June 27, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 102; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New...
2. Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person.
   • 'Oooh, don't.' Lilly staggered behind the counter. 'Hangover from hell. We had a good time, I think. He's such a flirt though. He really fancied Midnight. Was sooo gutted that she was actually a straight man. Think it almost turned him celibate.'2011, Christina Jones, Never Can Say Goodbye
3. An act of flirting.
4. A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something.
   • However, after a brief flirt with socialist realism , this method was abandoned and strict controls were removed after 1948. By the early 1950s, writers had earned the right to use any method and to experiment.1986, The Reader's Adviser
5. (dialectal) A brief shower (of rain or snow).
   • In the course of the month, there were three flirts of snow, […]1842, Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register, page 218
6. (with-definite-article) Russula vesca, an edible woodland mushroom.

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