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BEDFELLOW

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bed⋅fel⋅low

  [bed-fel-oh]
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–noun
1. Also called bedmate. a person who shares one's bed.
2. an associate or collaborator, esp. one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency: Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME bedfelow. See bed, fellow
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bed·fel·low   (běd'fěl'ō)   
n.  

  1. A bedmate.

  2. One that is closely associated or allied with another: "Stupidity here makes an easy bedfellow, as always, with racialism" (Christopher Hitchens).

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