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
Maxene	mak-SEEN	English (Rare)
Fredrik	FRED-rik (Swedish), FRED-reek (Finnish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish
Susy	['su:zi]
Lois	['ləuis]
Mot	-	Near Eastern Mythology
Elton	['eltən]