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
Augustinas	-	Lithuanian
Pilvi	PEEL-vee	Finnish
Severin	ZE-ve-reen (German)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Peace	PEES	English (Rare)
Aliza	ah-LEE-zah	Hebrew
Nataniel	nah-tah-NYEL (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese