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Something interesting happened to me a week ago when I was at work. Some coworkers and I were making jokes in our lunch break. I told a friend that he looked different and cute because he was dressing really nice. He smiled at me and said, “You are such a flirt!” I thought he was giving me a compliment. Then, one of my female friends tried to convince me that what he said was an awful thing to say to a woman, and that I needed to talk to him about the issue. Before jumping into any conclusions, I decided to look at all the different meanings that dictionaries and thesauruses provide for the term. The dictionary definition of a flirt is stated as follows: “one who flirts; a woman who acts with giddiness, or plays at courtship; a coquette; a pert girl”. Other thesauruses give the following synonyms for the word: “banter, chat up, come hither, come on, coquet, dally, dilly-dally, disport, fool, gold dig, hit on, lead o