Tra từ buddy - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

bud‧dy S3 /ˈbʌdi/ noun (plural buddies) [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1800-1900; Origin : Probably from brother]
1. informal a friend:
　 ▪ We’re good buddies.

2. American English spoken used to talk to a man or boy, especially one you do not know:
　 ▪ Hey, buddy! This your car?
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THESAURUS
▪friend someone who you know and like very much and enjoy spending time with :
　 ▪ Dad, this is my friend Steve.
　 ▪ She’s going to Palm Springs with some friends.
　 ▪ I got a letter from a friend from college.
　 ▪ Amy’s a close friend of mine.
　 ▪ John was a really good friend to me when I had all those problems last year.
▪acquaintance /əˈkweɪntəns/ someone who you know and see sometimes, but who is not one of your close friends :
　 ▪ We borrowed the money from one of Paul’s business acquaintances.
▪mate British English informal a friend – used especially about boys or men :
　 ▪ He always goes to the pub with his mates on Friday night.
　 ▪ Terry’s an old mate of mine.
▪buddy American English informal a friend – used especially about men or young people :
　 ▪ He’s out playing basketball with some of his high school buddies.
▪pal informal a friend – pal sounds rather old-fashioned :
　 ▪ They met at school and have remained close pals.
▪crony [USUALLY PLURAL] disapproving a friend – used about powerful people who will help each other even if it is slightly dishonest :
　 ▪ He’s one of the President’s cronies.
▪companion written someone who spends time with you, doing the same things as you – used about animals as well as people :
　 ▪ travelling companions
　 ▪ His dog was his constant companion.
　 ▪ the perfect companion
▪the girls informal a woman’s female friends :
　 ▪ We’re having a girls’ night out.
▪the lads British English informal a man’s male friends :
　 ▪ a night out with the lads

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