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(n)
(dated) A friend; a pal.
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(informal, originally Cambridge University) A close friend.
Son of the same parents as another person.
(informal) An assistant to another person, especially to a superior or more important person.
(colloquial) A friend, buddy, mate, cobber; someone to hang around with.
A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
(informal, colloquial) A friend.
(informal, dialect, chiefly US, chiefly as a term of address) A friend or companion.
(US) An affectionate term of address.
(colloquial) Used to address a group of people regardless of gender.
A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
(Australian Aboriginal) Used as a general intensifier; a pfella.
(chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade.
A mate, companion, or associate.
An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
A man.
(UK, Ireland, chiefly London, informal) A form of address to a man, usually a stranger or a superior.
(chiefly US, Canada, colloquial) A man, generally a younger man.
A former boyfriend.
(slang) Brother (a male sibling).
Alternative spelling of bra (“brother, friend”). [An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts.]
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
(dated) A familiar form of address for a boy.
A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.
(Southern US, childish) Brother; used as term of familiar address.
(US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) A child.
A surname.
A boy or young man.
An adult male human.
One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.
A male child.
A female partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
(informal) A father, a male parent.
One's male offspring.
(often childish) Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
(Scotland, Northumbria) A small boy.
(with the, invariable plural only) People who are old; old beings; the older generation, taken as a group.
A female child.
(usually childish) Father.
Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one.
(often as a term of address) A person who is much loved.
A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young.
(Scotland) A wife.
A very young human, particularly from birth to a couple of years old or until walking is fully mastered.
(slang) An attractive person, especially a young woman. [from 20th c.]
A fellow member of a profession, staff, academic faculty or other organization; an associate, a workmate.
Alternative form of homie. [(African-American Vernacular) Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown.]
An instance of teamwork.
A student who is in the same class at school.
A spouse or other person with whom one shares a domestic, romantic, or sexual bond.
One who has been around for a long time or has a great deal of experience.
An ongoing winner in a game or contest.
A person or organization that pays all or part of the cost of an event, publication, media program, etc., usually in exchange for advertising.
The process by which things are matched together or paired up.
(chiefly uncountable or in the singular) A small amount.
Someone who guards, watches over, or protects.
A person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.
(printing, dated, French and German contexts) Synonym of brevier.
A tradesman who has served an apprenticeship and is employed by a master tradesman.
(uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
A rude, rustic man; a churl.
The Quakers; the Society of Friends.
(derogatory, slang) A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
The crime of betraying one’s own country.
The act of betraying.
(informal) A cousin (usually as a term of address, but not necessarily towards one's cousin).
(colloquial) A man or boy; a fellow.
The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.
(Scotland, slang) A ned; a bampot.
The act of producing twins.
Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
(colloquial) Someone, particularly a male acquaintance, from one’s hometown.
(African-American Vernacular) Someone, particularly a friend or male acquaintance, from one's hometown.
A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force).
(chiefly colloquial, with 'of') Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
(informal) Buddy, sport, mate. (as a term of address)
No particular place, noplace.
A male given name from the Celtic languages.
Alternative spelling of aah. [Expression of amazement, surprise, enthusiasm, or fear.]
Alternative spelling of Sayyid. [A male given name from Arabic.]
Originally, a stick; now specifically, a long and slender piece of metal or (especially) wood, used for various construction or support purposes.
(slang) Intentionally spinning in circles and sliding in an automobile.
(US, slang) Term of address for a close, usually male, friend.
(chiefly US, in Spanish-speaking contexts, slang) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
A mammal of the family Canidae:
Initialism of Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
(informal) A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
A fellow, comrade, colleague, partner or someone with whom something is shared, e.g. shipmate, classmate.
Used as a term of address: young lad, friend, pal.
A term of familiar address; bubba; bubby.
(countable, uncountable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
A town in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
(informal, childish) A rabbit, especially a juvenile one.
(usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
(uncountable) A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.