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
Young-Ja	yung-jah	Korean
Deven	DEV-ən	English (Modern)
Ormonde	-	English (Rare)
Therese	te-RE-zə (German), te-RES (Swedish), tə-REES (English)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English
Lyudmila	lyood-MEE-lah (Russian)	Russian, Bulgarian, Medieval Slavic
Tarben	-	Danish