transcription, транскрипция: [ flɜ:(r)t ]
( flirts, flirting, flirted)
1.
If you flirt with someone, you behave as if you are sexually attracted to them, in a playful or not very serious way.
Dad’s flirting with all the ladies, or they’re all flirting with him, as usual...
He flirts outrageously.
V-RECIP : V with n , V ( non-recip )
• flir‧ta‧tion
(flirtations)
...a professor who has a flirtation with a student...
She was aware of his attempts at flirtation.
N-VAR : oft N with n
2.
Someone who is a flirt likes to flirt a lot.
N-COUNT
3.
If you flirt with the idea of something, you consider it but do not do anything about it.
Di Pietro, 45, has been flirting with the idea of a political career.
VERB : V with n
• flir‧ta‧tion
...the party’s brief flirtation with economic liberalism.
N-VAR