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variants or coquettes
present tense third-person singular of coquet
as in flirts
to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun a group of college students coquetting with each other at the beach

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coquets

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noun

plural of coquet

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  • In the middle of all this, Alexa and Lino remain pretty steadfast in their commitment to each other (except when Lino occasionally gets the urge to cheat and flirts with Alex, who turns him down every time).
    Charlotte Walsh, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2025
  • This approach flirts with sketch comedy stretched beyond its natural limits, but is fully validated in the form of Poorna Jagannathan’s Auntie Lucky, the Dars’ doting family friend who turns out to be a cold-blooded queenpin.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Coquets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coquets. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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