Definitions for flirts

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Spelling: [flurt]

IPA: /flɜrt/

Flirts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in flirts (filrst).

Definitions for flirts

noun

1. Also, flirter. a person who is given to flirting.
2. a quick throw or toss; sudden jerk or darting motion.

verb (used with object)

1. to give a sudden or brisk motion to; wave smartly, as a fan.
2. to throw or propel with a toss or jerk; fling suddenly.

verb (used without object)

1. to court triflingly or act amorously without serious intentions; play at love; coquet.
2. to trifle or toy, as with an idea:
3. to move with a jerk or jerks; dart about:

Origin of flirts

1540-50; expressive word; compare similar initial cluster in flap, flick¹, flip¹, and final e

Examples for flirts

We dragged a bait near him and he went down with a flirt of his tail.

The girls were so blasé about the men who came in to flirt with them—I mean genuinely blasé.

You can argue with clever women, but you can't kiss them or flirt with them.

She was also a buxom beauty, a kind of nineteenth century bombshell who loved to flirt.

Murmur soft nothings to the women; flirt but don't have favourites.

“You look like Dave Pirner,” she said to him, meaning the remark to sound like a small insult, but also a flirt.

Kurt responded with a flirt of his own: He grabbed Courtney and wrestled her to the ground.

You will not find him a heavy companion, and I allow you to flirt with him as much as you like.

Indeed, she had many admirers, and was even what some might call a flirt.

So too the many variations on its theme, each fueled by our limitless urge to flirt.