footsie

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I'll leave it to you, PopWatchers, to decide whether all this playing-footsie-with-reality enhances your enjoyment of Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan!

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  1. noun Informal The act of flirting in which one secretly touches the feet or legs of another with one's own, as under a table.
  2. idiom play footsie with To flirt with, especially in secret.
  3. idiom play footsie with To cooperate or curry favor with in a sly or devious way.

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  • I'll leave it to you, PopWatchers, to decide whether all this playing-footsie-with-reality enhances your enjoyment of Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan! —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • It's still the Beatles at their fatuous worst, playing political footsie (Lennon's "But if you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out / in"), trafficking in lame, —  MetaFilter Projects
  • No idea that you're trying to decide whether he's playing footsie or if he has restless leg syndrome. —  Boston.com Most Popular
  • After all the so-called lessons on eying, winking, footsie, and touching, girlfriend never even actually got laid. —  Eater LA
  • In this, what someday may be known as the "too much information" age, we know which stars are wearing underwear, which senators are in bed with whom, and who's playing footsie in the stall next to us. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
 

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