noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
buddy list
buddy system
drinking companion/buddy/partner etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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So his good buddy President Bill found a few billion to quell the restless natives.
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Since she had grown up, they had become the best of buddies .
old
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It became very much a matter of the old touring buddies looking after each other.
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Hey Matt, old pal, old buddy , this stuff got stolen from us, it was moving, interstate commerce.
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Another old buddy of mine, who has been everywhere and done everything, is into his 70s.
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A lot of people right now are probably comparing Floyd to his old buddy Ricky Watters.
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In fact, old buddy , leave me.
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Joe had called an old army buddy .
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He made only one change, firing the fire commissioner and putting in his old Hamburg Club buddy , Robert Quinn.
■ NOUN
army
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Timothy McVeigh and two army buddies are charged.
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She learned that an army buddy of her son, who serves in an elite commando unit, had died.
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Joe had called an old army buddy .
bosom
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There was less arguing after that, but the two actors never became bosom buddies and never worked together again.
system
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And the kids have a buddy system they can count on.
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They therefore blame not the buddy system but political patronage for government inefficiency.
■ VERB
drink
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Though not necessarily together; they were not drinking buddies .
play
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Stephen Baldwin plays the jelly-brained buddy .
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Jamie Foxx and Tommy Davidson play buddies with lustful designs on their dates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bosom friend/buddy/pal
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Benny and Garry were bosom pals once again.
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He was still my friend, my bosom friend.
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It is an open secret that he and Reg Pybus are bosom pals.
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It is now that man contemplates, for it is now that the sea is a bosom friend.
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Queequeg says they are now married-meaning they are bosom friends who would defend each other to the death.
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The first was affection of the kind that binds families together, or bosom pals.
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There was less arguing after that, but the two actors never became bosom buddies and never worked together again.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's one of Mike's buddies.
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He's out playing basketball with some of his high school buddies.
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Hey, buddy ! Is this your car?
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It doesn't matter to me what you think, buddy boy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And taking on the computer-generated demons with a buddy was more fun than playing alone.
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But get right on it, buddy .
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It's all hands across the waters and let's be buddies.
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Monnett and a buddy , Jack Smith, of Sidney, Ohio, strolled to an upper-deck to watch the sea.
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The casual wink from you, the cheery salute from your buddy , the you-rascal-you smiles of recognition from your workmates.
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There was less arguing after that, but the two actors never became bosom buddies and never worked together again.
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Timothy McVeigh and two army buddies are charged.
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You can blast your buddies and taunt them verbally at the same time.