(v. t.) To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
(v. t.) To toss or throw about; to move playfully to and fro; as, to flirt a fan.
(v. t.) To jeer at; to treat with contempt; to mock.
(v. i.) To run and dart about; to act with giddiness, or from a desire to attract notice; especially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.
(v. i.) To utter contemptuous language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe.
(n.) A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion; hence, a jeer.
(v. t.) One who flirts; esp., a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl.
(a.) Pert; wanton.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some in the industry expect buyouts from big internet companies like Google, which was rumoured to have flirted with WhatsApp earlier this year.
(2) Trump and his wife, Melania, descended an escalator into the basement lobby of the Trump Tower on 16 June 2015, for an announcement many observers said would never come: the celebrity real estate developer, who had flirted with running for office in the past, would announce that he was launching his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
(3) The woman from Lesotho alleges one guard who flirted with her in 2009 is still working there because a friend had complained to her about the same man when she was released from Yarl's Wood earlier this month.
(4) In her first straight dramatic role, albeit one with comedy elements, Hart has proved a hit: Chummy's awkward flirting with Constable Noakes, wobbly cycling and surprise medical ability delighting the show's more than 10 million viewers.
(5) Some bands delight in producing music that flirts with dangerous themes.
(6) A well-known conservative, Ditka publicly flirted with running against Democratic candidate Barack Obama, then a state senator, for the open seat in the US Senate vacated by Illinois senator Peter Fitzgerald in 2004.
(7) The slick advert, released this week, shows a young couple flirting at a polling site , before the woman grabs the man by the neck and pulls him into the election booth as heavy breaths accompany a techno soundtrack.
(8) Burnham said “a language of xenophobia has entered the lexicon” of British politics and that many politicians were flirting with racism.
(9) Click here to view Ingrid Jungermann's "homoneurotic" Kickstarter-funded webseries sees "internally homophobic" lesbian Ingrid panic-spiral about everything, from attending trans parties to flirting with bar staff.
(10) Sapp flirts with apocalyptic rhetoric on the way to the conclusion that Trump recognizes no power higher than his own ego.
(11) At the same time, don’t we want our pop stars to at least flirt with irresponsibility?
(12) You’ve already seen the first sorties: since the separation of powers is the longest-standing of American ideas, the tweeted hostility to a “so-called judge” crosses a line only Richard Nixon ever flirted with.
(13) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
(14) But if Facebook flirts too brazenly with commercial partners, it may see its growth slow down dramatically.
(15) They seem to flirt with the idea of replacing democratic institutions.
(16) Even one journalist in a gay bar has to work hard not to spoil the party, so the poor Russians who came in on Friday and Saturday night for a peaceful drink and a flirt must have felt like animals in a zoo.
(17) Both were then publicly flirting with a presidential bid but neither Palin nor Trump eventually threw their hat in the ring.
(18) He dropped out to set up Rawkus Records with friends, before his father enticed him into the family business, offering him the chance to run internet businesses at a time when the world's big media groups were first flirting with the online world.
(19) As a director, too, Hytner has continued to flirt with multiple identities.
(20) West Ham's manager of three years, who steered the team to a 13th-place finish this season after flirting with relegation for long periods, held talks with the co-chairman David Sullivan on Tuesday amid grumbling supporters' discontent at the style of football the side have played.
Flirtation
Definition:
(n.) Playing at courtship; coquetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) More likely though was that the Foreign Office, which has deep misgivings about the flirtation, would now seek to reassert its control over China policy and cool relations with the world’s second-largest economy.
(2) Before what is bound to be a gossip-fuelled party conference season in which Lib Dem flirtation with Labour (and vice versa) will be added to the mix of plotting, irresistible visions of the future home into view.
(3) They argue it is facing a funding crisis of up to £150m a year because it has embarked on failed business ventures, including an expensive flirtation with digital radio, and spent too much on US imports.
(4) George Osborne’s brief post-referendum flirtation with a low corporation tax regime was ended by his sacking in July.
(5) Often, Hofer’s flirtation with the iconography and language of the National Socialist movement has been far from covert.
(6) Erdogan's regional foreign policy initiatives, his flirtation with Iran, his split with Israel, and his courting of supposedly suspect countries such as Syria have led western commentators to speculate about a "strategic realignment" in Turkish policy, away from the west and Nato and towards the Arab and Muslim worlds, in parallel with the AKP's pursuit of a neo-Islamist agenda at home.
(7) In a blog published on Friday afternoon entitled "My teenage mistakes" , Weldon said his year-long flirtation would have remained the embarrassing stuff of his youth had he not a few years later done what he described as a "dumb thing" and boasted about his past in an Oxford student newspaper.
(8) Only the flirtation between Shirley and Phil offered any comedy.
(9) A controversial Daily Star front page, with the headline "English Defence League to become a political party", was "not a flirtation, but a wake-up call", he insists, and Desmond, whose Jewishness is never far from his thinking, says it would be ridiculous for him to back far-right politics.
(10) James Milner is yet to accept the offer of a new contract and may well use his free agent status to move to a club that can offer more regular first-team starts, and Yaya Touré has begun his annual flirtation with the transfer market via the unsubtle declarations of his agent.
(11) Clegg's shift in affection follows similar flirtation between senior members of his party and Labour, notably Ed Balls, in recent months.
(12) Women waited, made ourselves presentable, and hoped flirtations with the object of our interest would lead to an ask-out.
(13) 8.02pm BST Summary Here's a summary of where things stand: • The president lamented damage from the government shutdown and flirtation with default .
(14) These have been described as including: vanity, 'buzz', flirtation, a sense of power and control and professional advantage during employment within the MPS or to gain future employment elsewhere."
(15) Jonathan Arnott said the fracas placed a cloud over both Woolfe and Hookem: “Surely they can’t now consider that either of them could stand in a leadership contest.” Gerard Batten said he was disappointed Woolfe had left the meeting rather than answer questions over his flirtation with the Conservatives: “A Ukip MEP who is prepared to even discuss defection to another party is not fit to run as leader of Ukip.” Describing Thursday’s incident, Hookem said a meeting of Ukip MEPs had become heated when Woolfe, a contender to replace Diane James as party leader, was asked about his admission he had considered defecting to the Conservatives .
(16) Excerpts from the diary show him to be a liberal-minded man and one fond of the company of young people; and show Betty to be a sprightly young Quakeress, buffeted by emotional conflicts between loyalty to her north-country fiance and her flirtation with young Dr. John Coakley Lettsom.
(17) Policy makers had a brief flirtation with Keynes back in the winter of 2008-09, but are now intent on cutting deficits and balancing budgets.
(18) Updated at 7.14pm BST 6.58pm BST The flirtation with default has inspired some colorful analogies .
(19) Norman is understood to take a dim view of their vocal interference in the chief executive search, and particularly the flirtation with former BSkyB boss Tony Ball.
(20) - and trades favourite Hank moments (his being Kingsley's ill-fated, careerist flirtation with Judaism).