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单词 old chum
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old chum

noun informal
1A person’s close or long-standing friend: it was really fun getting together with these old chums...
  • She confides in her old chum that she wasn't keen on the former lord of the manor.
  • We'd rather he'd reunited with his old chums and made more films.
  • Bernard advises him to travel to seek tuition from his old chum the Earl of Clincham.
1.1Australian /NZ historical An immigrant with experience of Australian life, especially life in the outback: newcomers modelled their behaviour patterns on the old chums...
  • Three years were required to make an old chum, who was expected in that time to cultivate a moustache, and to wear a dirty, cabbage-tree hat.
  • "Why", laughing answered an old chum, "That 'eres the Settler's Clock."
  • Most of the passengers are Australians, 'old chums' who have crossed the Line more than once.
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