замутить (zamutit)

What it means

1. 1.

   To get something going with someone — to start a relationship, usually a casual one. замутить с кем-то, and the noun мутки for the resulting entanglement.

2. 2.

   Also entirely non-romantic: замутить бизнес, замутить вечеринку — to set something up, organise it, get it off the ground. The shared idea is starting something informally and slightly opportunistically.

Examples with translations

• Они на работе замутили, все знают.

  They got together at work — everyone knows.

• Давай замутим что-нибудь на выходные.

  Let's put something together for the weekend.

Where it comes from

From мутить 'to stir up, to make cloudy'. The cloudiness is the point — a замут is something set up informally, outside proper channels, and the romantic sense inherits that deliberate vagueness.

Other forms

Romanised as:

zamutit