often as modifierAn act of talking flirtatiously to someone.
〈英，非正式〉轻佻的攀谈，调情
a chat-up line
调情热线。
Example sentencesExamples
Couples then form a line, boys on one side, girls on the other, and toss a ball back and forth while the girls do a good job of looking bored and the boys desperately practise their chat-up lines.
You try writing chat-up lines destined to be spoken by a man labelled ‘the greatest lover in history’.
No cheesy chat-up lines, no recriminations, too few regrets to mention.
If that doesn't qualify as an original chat-up line then nothing does.
Don't tell me he's never used it as a chat-up line.
This girl, on the other hand, is available, and, I humbly suggest, very open to chat-up lines.
I'm waiting for some cheesy chat-up lines; I want as many as possible.
He's small and chunky, with an inexhaustible supply of chat-up lines.
Plus, they've got some truly wonderful chat-up lines at their disposal.
Lonely hearts can overcome their shyness and brush up on their chat-up lines at a new dating workshop.
I seem to be assembling a small museum of what I like to think were supposed to be chat-up lines.
You, meanwhile, can basically pick and choose despite your awful chat-up lines and your bulging beer belly.
But the swarthy Greek waiter with the snake hips and the cheesy chat-up lines has suddenly turned into the man of your dreams.
I don't know if that's a chat-up line or not, but it's just about the worst thing I've ever heard.
The players are all very polite and the odd chat-up lines are always humorous.
But cheesy chat-up lines don't play a part, she says.
Apparently, the above question was the most successful chat-up line in this experiment - that and the rather less inspiring: ‘What topping do you like on your pizza?’
Anyway, I always find that you can never go wrong with a top-class chat-up line!
No more seedy bars, inept passes or atrocious chat-up lines.
Psychiatrists in Japan have created what they claim is the world's most effective chat-up line.