to associate as comrades or chums: to pal around with the kid next door.
Origin of pal
First recorded in 1675–85; from English Romani: “brother, mate,” variant of continental Romani phral, ultimately from Sanskrit bhrātṛ “brother”; see brother
a special air service offered by the U.S. Postal Service for sending parcels from 5 to 30 pounds (2.3 to 13.5 kilograms) to overseas members of the armed forces: only the regular parcel post rate to the U.S. port of shipment plus $1 is charged.
Know your goalEvery communication or message, from talking to your pal on the phone to addressing the nation on national television, has an objective.
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You can let the person stay relatively dark— but allow the clouds to shine—or you can properly expose your pal, and have the sky get blown out and lose most of its color and detail.
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So she started an Instagram account, offering to connect potential pen pals.
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Perhaps best of all, this scooter comes with a carrying strap so you can stay handsfree, or carry coffee for you and a pal without leaving your new favorite mode of transportation behind.
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Grant's pal Howard Hughes offered to fly them back to Los Angeles in his private plane.
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A few weeks later, Valentino and her pal, an aspiring actress named Meg Foster, met Cosby again at Café Figaro.
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And your pal Laura Dern recently said you were “cooking up” your next one.
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You can up the ante even more by signing a contract agreeing to pay a pal $20 every time you skip Pilates.
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That was the sad and screwy logic that propelled Douglas McAuthur McCain and his pal Troy Kastigar.
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"It's the meanest thing out,—that splitting on a pal," said the man who had been called Michael.
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Mount Her´mon, is near the source of the Jor´dan, on the east, and is the highest mountain in Pal´es-tine.
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It was like hanging round trying to make conversation to a pal who's just been sentenced to twenty years in quod.
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At last, as her rebellious eyelids grew heavy, she crept up to a place beside her pal and fell asleep.
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Even Timmie, who recognized his pal of other days, seemed happy.
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British Dictionary definitions for pal (1 of 3)
pal
/ (pæl) informal /
noun
a close friend; comrade
an accomplice
verbpals, pallingorpalled
(intr; usually foll by with or about)to associate as friends
See also pal up
Word Origin for pal
C17: from English Gypsy: brother, ultimately from Sanskrit bhrātarbrother
British Dictionary definitions for pal (2 of 3)
PAL
/ (pæl) /
n acronym for
phase alternation line: a colour-television broadcasting system used generally in Europe