work the crowd

To excite or entertain an audience. Man, that singer sure knows how to work a crowd! They're going wild for him! The keynote speaker was late, so I had to work the crowd for a while to stall.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Avner	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Ermentrud	ER-men-troot	German (Archaic)
Conan	-	Irish
ValdimÁRr	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Leonas	-	Lithuanian
Torleif	-	Norwegian