What it means
To chirpse someone is to chat them up with flirty chat, cheeky lines, compliments and all that extra sauce. It’s not just talking, it’s trying to land romantically. Sometimes it comes off smooth, sometimes it sounds fully embarrassing, but the whole point is to see if the other person’s feeling it.
Usage examples
"Man’s been chirpsing her all night, buying her Jägerbombs and chatting bare nonsense, but she’s just sipping her drink and airing him."
"My cousin spent the whole open-mic night chirpsing the bartender, sliding compliments between two-pound IPA pours and getting nowhere except a polite smile and a recommendation for a different bar."
"You cannot chirpse the postal worker in front of the entire bus queue at half eight, bro, she is just trying to deliver the recorded letters and not slip on a Yorkie wrapper at your feet."
"He kept chirpsing my friend outside Morley's like his two jokes and a Canada Goose were meant to change her whole evening."
"Don't come over here chirpsing me at the bus stop, babe, I've had a long day and your chat's doing acrobatics for no reason."
Where it comes from
Chirpsing is real London slang from Multicultural London English, big in the 1990s and 2000s. It means chatting someone up with flirtatious banter. It’s tied to chirpse, a London form shaped by Caribbean-influenced speech, then spread wider through grime, pirate radio, youth chat and everyday UK street talk.
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