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flirtship en · NOUN

Etymology

From flirt + -ship.

Meanings

1. (informal) A friendship which involves flirting but that has not yet progressed into a serious relationship.
   • Chris, Jessenia, Alana situation--I don't think there was any ploy. They all knew each other and I'm sure many contestants have flirtships at one point or another but I don't think they had any plot to begin with or else Chris wouldn't have left so easily. 2021 September 11, “maybe i'm reaching..? but i feel like serena may have been IN on brendan/pieper scandal...”, in Reddit, r/bachelorinparadise, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2023:
   • After weeks of the kind of "will they/won't they" tension that great television romances are made of, Tyler and Angela have turned their flirtship into a full-blown showmance on Big Brother. 2018 September 6, Jack O'Keeffe, “The 'Big Brother' Showmance You've Been Waiting For Is Officially Official”, in Bustle, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2021:
   • Drgnan suggested, "You might sit beside me instead of on me. My legs are falling asleep." ¶ "Okay," said Madigan, "is that one of your monklike secret sayings, in which you mean that you don't know how to go forward in our flirtship, or is it—" 2011, M[atthew] T[obin] Anderson, Zombie Mommy, New York, N.Y. […]: Beach Lane Books, →ISBN, page 145:

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