Dictionary

come on to en · VERB

Meanings

1. (informal, transitive) To make a romantic or sexual advance to.
   • He was really coming on to me at the party.
   • Sometimes I go to bed alone, horny and frustrated, angry at myself for not being more assertive and coming on to a new man who excited me. 1980 August 9, John D'Emilio, “There's No Place Like Home”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
2. (slang, transitive) To harass (someone).
3. To start to.
   • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky. 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
   • It came on to snow after dusk.

Forms

Deriveds

come-on

Relateds

come on

Synonyms

make a pass · hit on

Translations (28)

cmn 吃豆腐 (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · pl podrywać (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · hu kikezd (with -val/-vel) (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · es ligar (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · fi flirttailla (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · pl flirtować (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · nl flirten (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · hu hajt (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · ru флиртовать (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · cmn 轻薄 (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · es tirar los tejos (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · es propasarse con (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · ru закадри́ть (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · sv stöta (på) (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · hu flörtöl (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · fi lähennellä (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · it flirtare (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · pt dar em cima (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · es insinuarse (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · fi iskeä (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · de anmachen (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · de anflirten (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · fi lähestyä (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · fi yrittää (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · fr draguer (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · es pinchar con alguien (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · es tirar [la] onda (make a romantic or sexual advance to) · ru ухаживать (make a romantic or sexual advance to)