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
Aludra	-	Astronomy
Estela	-	Portuguese, Spanish
Szymon	SHI-mawn	Polish
Horus	HAWR-əs (English)	Egyptian Mythology (Latinized)
Dzvonimir	-	Macedonian
Leonie	LE-o-nee (German), lay-o-NEE (Dutch)	German, Dutch