Definition of: flirt

(flûrt) v.i.
1. To play at courtship; try to attract attention or admiration; coquet.
2. To trifle; toy: to flirt with danger.
3. To move with sudden jerky motions.
—v.t.
4. To toss or throw with a jerk.
5. To move briskly or back and forth.
—noun
1. A person, especially a woman, who coquets; a trifler.
2. The act of flirting; a flirting motion; fling. [Imit.]
—flirt′er noun
—flirt′y adjective