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
Shavonne	shə-VAWN (English)	Irish, English
Greta	GRE-tah (German), GRET-ə (English)	Swedish, German, English
Persefoni	-	Greek
Aggie	AG-ee	English
Silje	-	Norwegian, Danish
Arij	-	Arabic