noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pen pal
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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Buster is a rabbit, and good pal .
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Chloe's best pal had died from cancer earlier that year.
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Where's my best pal Scorelord?
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He was my best pal and he died aged forty-six.
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Stick to what you're good at, pal .
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Diana's three best pals are the women who shared her bachelor-girl pad in in Knightsbridge before she was married.
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First he slapped Lisa then had hot turkey love with her best pal .
old
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He's not keen to join another Aussie club and face having to play against his old Penrith pals .
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An old Bridgeport pal with no qualifications had been put in charge of the community conservation program.
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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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Who really stands to lose from the hydrogen engine, old pal ?
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There certainly was an old pal to visit, but General Kent did not choose to discuss it.
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See you again, old pal .
■ NOUN
bosom
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Benny and Garry were bosom pals once again.
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It is an open secret that he and Reg Pybus are bosom pals .
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The first was affection of the kind that binds families together, or bosom pals .
pen
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Translating email pen pals into the real world of human contact, or even romance, is another matter.
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Craig and Johnson met the way practically anyone meets an inmate: They became pen pals .
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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Listen, pal , I know what I'm talking about, okay?
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Nicholas was a pal of William's at school.
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Thanks for helping us out, Frankie. You're a real pal .
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They'd been pals since childhood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But his 11-year-old pal panicked because he was frightened of getting into trouble, it was revealed yesterday.
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Da Lench Mob are Ice Cube's pals.
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Eddie turned out to be a pretty absent-minded pal of the road.
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Oh, but pal - you're wrong.
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The mystery pal held Sporty Spice's hand in a show of support as they left London's Kabaret club.
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Were all his posse pals going to diss him once word got out?