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nounPlural pals palpæl informal 1A friend. we've been pals for a long time Example sentencesExamples - When she started to improve, her pals decided to treat her to a night out.
- School pals and teachers were highly delighted and all wish her well in the final rally.
- He and pals later moved on to a bar in the Quay Street area of the city.
- The next few days will be a series of frenzied meetings with pals, with former employers and old friends.
- You are likely to get trustworthy pals, while some others may go for a new vehicle.
- It offers visitors an opportunity to find new pals to enjoy a drink with, and maybe some conversation too.
- They took the triplets into school and Megan enjoyed showing them off to her pals.
- We had so many pals and friends through art school that we usually got a good turnout anyway.
- But he is confident his old pals will do the business and launch the club into Division One.
- She never saw her school pals, who sent her video messages and letters of comfort.
- While Henry may have failed to taste true European glory with Leeds, he at least had a whiff of it, he tells pals.
- A few people turned up, but to be honest, I had no idea if any of them were my former school pals or not.
- The pair, both aged 21, had been pals for six years and had a mutual love of cars.
- Not only am I thinking of buying from friends but my lawyer is one of my best pals too.
- Your child may be great friends with someone one day, then best pals with somebody else the next.
- Six of his pals were also given a ticking-off by police officers but they were allowed to make the journey.
- He already has a fan club in the shape of his family, who cheered him on in the studio, and school pals.
- The pair became party pals and were spotted in some of the Welsh capital's trendiest nightspots.
- Other pals chummed him along the first stretch from Milngavie and his dad kept him company yesterday.
- They became good pals and discovered that they all had a strong interest in music.
Synonyms friend, companion, comrade, intimate, familiar, confidant, alter ego, second self playmate, classmate, schoolmate, workmate informal chum, buddy, bosom pal, sidekick, cully, spar, crony, mucker, butty, main man British informal mate, oppo, china Northern English informal marrow, marrer, marra North American informal amigo, compadre, paisan, bro North American & South African informal homeboy, homegirl South African informal gabba archaic compeer rare fidus Achates - 1.1 Used as a form of address, especially to indicate anger or aggression.
Example sentencesExamples - Paramedics have been asked by bosses not to call people duck, pal, love or mate for fear of causing offence.
- Are you going to races all your life or are you going to finally get in the race, pal?
- This is one of those bars where lads who used to be bad boys drink and the staff call you pal, not sir.
- In other words, you try to take what's mine, pal, and I'm going to stop you with the best means available.
- This is Southern California, pal, where physical imperfection will NOT be tolerated.
- I also remember you said you would be coming along on that little road trip too, pal.
verbpals, palling, palled palpæl [no object]pal upinformal 1Form a friendship. she palled up with some English chaps Example sentencesExamples - You might think that they would pal up and close ranks to try and beat the opposition.
- If dogs don't have other dogs to ‘pack’ with, they pal up with us humans, another social animal.
- So he pals up with her descendant, herself a post-feminist critic.
- He pals up with a guy who works in catering, who feeds him in return for information about a girl he fancies at the immigration desk, and he gets a job, building a new departure gate.
- He's like the bloke you pal up with in your first week at university and then spend the rest of the term avoiding when you find out what he's really like.
- You'll need to find some other poor sap to put up with you now, perhaps you can pal up with Longbottom.
- Meanwhile, the husband pals up with a solid, old-style earth Mother who lives in his apartment building, just so that we know how far his wife has strayed.
- Nellie looked a bit annoyed at my comment and I decided she and Annie must have palled up already- and probably Sarah too.
- In this twisty take on the western, two upper-class Englishmen, sent to Montana to find their missing brother, pal up with a motley assortment of fellow travellers.
- There is much to be said for waiters who know their job and don't want to pal up with the punters.
Synonyms become friendly, make friends, become friends, form a friendship informal get in North American informal buddy up informal, dated chum up - 1.1pal around Spend time with a friend.
we got acquainted but we never really palled around Example sentencesExamples - Get a profile up online that's sexy, forward, funny and easy on the self-deprecation - one where there is clearly no room for just palling around.
- It's not like he pals around and makes sundry business deals with convicted felons.
- . Of course palling around with him meant doing untold quantities of drugs, which the story makes clear was part of his downfall.
- The cheetah and raccoon didn't normally pal around together, but they had shared a cab from their hotel to the same area of town.
- The one drawback are the cheesy moments of him palling around with his cutesy kids.
- He explains: ‘Paddy was working on the railway at the time in Portlaoise and we palled around together.’
- It would be good for you to find a study partner, especially one that you can pal around with from a public school.
- It is dangerous for economists to expand into measuring happiness among ‘potential smokers’ and other groups, given the profession's penchant for palling around with legislators and bureaucrats.
- Although she doesn't spend much time in North America - Europe seems to be hogging her - Heather pals around with all the big names.
- Yet he refuses to buy into the theory that his lack of production has anything to do with the injury to his close friend, who lived in the same condo complex as Sundin in Toronto and often palled around together.
- This is where you pal around with your friend or friends and just have fun.
- Once there, things go from lousy to worse as Emily starts staring blankly into the surrounding woods and palling around with a sinister invisible friend called Charlie.
- I've never really palled around with anybody that does what I do.
- Meanwhile, Simone pals around with the local bad boy with a heart of gold, who takes her for rides on the back of his motorcycle and buys her expensive diamond necklaces she can't see.
- Meanwhile, she has been conspicuously palling around with a billionaire.
- As a youth, I was a friendly soul, palling around with all and sundry.
Synonyms mix, keep company, mingle, socialize, get together, go around, rub shoulders, fraternize, consort, have dealings
Origin Late 17th century: from Romany, 'brother, mate', based on Sanskrit bhrātṛ 'brother'. Rhymes Al, bacchanal, cabal, canal, Chagall, Chantal, chaparral, gal, grand mal, Guadalcanál, Hal, La Salle, mall, Natal, pall-mall, petit mal, sal, shall, Val nounpalpæl mass nounThe television broadcasting system used in most of Europe.
Origin Acronym from Phase Alternate Line (so named because the colour information in alternate lines is inverted in phase). nounpælpal informal 1A friend. Example sentencesExamples - When she started to improve, her pals decided to treat her to a night out.
- School pals and teachers were highly delighted and all wish her well in the final rally.
- It offers visitors an opportunity to find new pals to enjoy a drink with, and maybe some conversation too.
- Your child may be great friends with someone one day, then best pals with somebody else the next.
- While Henry may have failed to taste true European glory with Leeds, he at least had a whiff of it, he tells pals.
- The pair became party pals and were spotted in some of the Welsh capital's trendiest nightspots.
- But he is confident his old pals will do the business and launch the club into Division One.
- He already has a fan club in the shape of his family, who cheered him on in the studio, and school pals.
- The pair, both aged 21, had been pals for six years and had a mutual love of cars.
- A few people turned up, but to be honest, I had no idea if any of them were my former school pals or not.
- He and pals later moved on to a bar in the Quay Street area of the city.
- She never saw her school pals, who sent her video messages and letters of comfort.
- Other pals chummed him along the first stretch from Milngavie and his dad kept him company yesterday.
- The next few days will be a series of frenzied meetings with pals, with former employers and old friends.
- Not only am I thinking of buying from friends but my lawyer is one of my best pals too.
- They took the triplets into school and Megan enjoyed showing them off to her pals.
- We had so many pals and friends through art school that we usually got a good turnout anyway.
- Six of his pals were also given a ticking-off by police officers but they were allowed to make the journey.
- You are likely to get trustworthy pals, while some others may go for a new vehicle.
- They became good pals and discovered that they all had a strong interest in music.
Synonyms friend, companion, comrade, intimate, familiar, confidant, alter ego, second self - 1.1 Used as a form of address, especially to indicate anger or aggression.
Example sentencesExamples - Paramedics have been asked by bosses not to call people duck, pal, love or mate for fear of causing offence.
- This is one of those bars where lads who used to be bad boys drink and the staff call you pal, not sir.
- Are you going to races all your life or are you going to finally get in the race, pal?
- This is Southern California, pal, where physical imperfection will NOT be tolerated.
- In other words, you try to take what's mine, pal, and I'm going to stop you with the best means available.
- I also remember you said you would be coming along on that little road trip too, pal.
verbpælpal [no object]pal aroundinformal Spend time with a friend. we got acquainted but we never really palled around Example sentencesExamples - He explains: ‘Paddy was working on the railway at the time in Portlaoise and we palled around together.’
- It's not like he pals around and makes sundry business deals with convicted felons.
- As a youth, I was a friendly soul, palling around with all and sundry.
- Meanwhile, Simone pals around with the local bad boy with a heart of gold, who takes her for rides on the back of his motorcycle and buys her expensive diamond necklaces she can't see.
- This is where you pal around with your friend or friends and just have fun.
- Although she doesn't spend much time in North America - Europe seems to be hogging her - Heather pals around with all the big names.
- I've never really palled around with anybody that does what I do.
- The cheetah and raccoon didn't normally pal around together, but they had shared a cab from their hotel to the same area of town.
- The one drawback are the cheesy moments of him palling around with his cutesy kids.
- . Of course palling around with him meant doing untold quantities of drugs, which the story makes clear was part of his downfall.
- It is dangerous for economists to expand into measuring happiness among ‘potential smokers’ and other groups, given the profession's penchant for palling around with legislators and bureaucrats.
- Get a profile up online that's sexy, forward, funny and easy on the self-deprecation - one where there is clearly no room for just palling around.
- Meanwhile, she has been conspicuously palling around with a billionaire.
- It would be good for you to find a study partner, especially one that you can pal around with from a public school.
- Once there, things go from lousy to worse as Emily starts staring blankly into the surrounding woods and palling around with a sinister invisible friend called Charlie.
- Yet he refuses to buy into the theory that his lack of production has anything to do with the injury to his close friend, who lived in the same condo complex as Sundin in Toronto and often palled around together.
Synonyms mix, keep company, mingle, socialize, get together, go around, rub shoulders, fraternize, consort, have dealings
Origin Late 17th century: from Romany, ‘brother, mate’, based on Sanskrit bhrātṛ ‘brother’. nounpælpal The television broadcasting system used in most of Europe.
Origin Acronym from Phase Alternate Line (so named because the color information in alternate lines is inverted in phase). |