Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Showing or marked by great outward friendship.
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- adjective (used informally) associated on close terms
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Examples
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Dad was born in 1926, a very different world, and ours wasn't a buddy-buddy relationship because he just didn't come from that sort of background.
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I don't have a relationship with athletes of a buddy-buddy nature at all.
Charles van Commenee stands firm in row with Phillips Idowu 2011
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Steve: So, you spend an entire primary campaign trying to brand me as a whackjob and crazy, and then when you get your ass beat, you expect me to be all buddy-buddy?
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"Stop being so buddy-buddy with Corporate America."
Labor Day Blues Al Lewis 2011
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It's buddy-buddy enough to not seem too date-y, but it gives you plenty of time to get to know him.
Shakespeare's mocking it Post 2011
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So, you spend an entire primary campaign trying to brand me as a whackjob and crazy, and then when you get your ass beat, you expect me to be all buddy-buddy?
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And I won't even mention the good old rhetorical parry--which one is disappointed to find under his pen--arguing that yesterday's cowardice Mitterrand, Chirac, Sarkozy, all of them buddy-buddy with the great financier of international terrorism justifies perseverance in inaction today.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: A Reply -- With Regret -- to Claude Lanzmann Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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Chrysler, in an apparent attempt to shed its fuddy-duddy image after all, they boast about being the originator and ruler of the minivan world, for a buddy-buddy one, tried desperately to show the world they were hip during an overly scripted press conference.
2011 Detroit Auto Show: Will Chrysler wordsmith their way to success? 2011
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So, you spend an entire primary campaign trying to brand me as a whackjob and crazy, and then when you get your ass beat, you expect me to be all buddy-buddy?
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Gabriel angrily denounced the interview as a “darling high school reunion”: “All of the sudden, Neil Cavuto is interviewing him like a buddy-buddy because he is the boss.”
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