buddy up
i verb (used without object)
Verb phrases 3.
to be a companion; be friendly or on intimate terms.
4.
buddy up,
a.
to become friendly; be on friendly or intimate terms.
b.
to work closely together: to buddy up with a student from another high school.
5.
buddy up to, to become friendly with or curry the favor of: He was buddying up to the political bosses.
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Buddy up
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
buddy (ˈbʌdɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -dies | |
| 1. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) an informal word for friend Also called (as a term of address): bud |
| 2. | a volunteer who visits and gives help and support to a person suffering from AIDS |
| 3. | a volunteer who gives help and support to a person who has become disabled but is returning to work |
| —vb , -dies, -dying, -died | |
| 4. | (intr) to act as a buddy to a person suffering from AIDS |
| [C19: probably a baby-talk variant (US) of | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
buddy
1850, Amer.Eng., possibly an alteration of brother, or from British colloquial butty "companion" (1802), itself perhaps a variant of booty in booty fellow "confederate who shares plunder" (1520s). But butty, meaning "work-mate," also was a localized dialect word in England and Wales, attested since 18c.,
and long associated with coal miners. Short form bud is attested from 1851.
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Slang Dictionary
buddy up (with (so)) definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
buddy up
Be very friendly, as in He is always wanting to buddy up with me, but I don't really like him. [Slang; early 1900s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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