No-Mates
/ˈnəʊmeɪts/British informal
noun
A person (usually a man) regarded as lonely or having no friends. Usually as a humorous surname used with a generic first name, as Billy No-Mates, etc.
Origin
1990s; earliest use found in The Sunday Telegraph. From no + the plural of mate, probably popularized by use as a T-shirt slogan in the early 1990s.
- playa-hater
- playa lake
- play a let
- play a lone hand
- play along
- play a (or one's) hunch
- play a part
- play a trick (or joke) on
- play away
- playback
- playback singer
- play ball
- playbill
- playboat
- playboater
- playboating
- play bone
- playbook
- play both ends against the middle
- playbox
- playboy
- playboyish
- playboyishness
- playboyism
- playbroker