FLIRT WITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flirt with mean? 

• FLIRT WITH (verb)
  The verb FLIRT WITH has 1 sense:

1. take into consideration, have in view

  Familiarity information: FLIRT WITH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLIRT WITH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Take into consideration, have in view

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

entertain; flirt with; think about; think of; toy with

Context example:

He entertained the notion of moving to South America

Hypernyms (to "flirt with" is one way to...):

contemplate (consider as a possibility)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing

 Context examples 

While there was an officer in Meryton, they would flirt with him; and while Meryton was within a walk of Longbourn, they would be going there forever.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A woman in love with one man cannot flirt with another.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I hope I have not done wrong, for as sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear comes: that I may have been foolish in thus depriving myself of the power of waking.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)