Meaning & use
Buddies
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Close friends, especially ones with whom a person shares casual or long-standing companionship.
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We've been buddies since elementary school.
He went camping with his old army buddies.
A note on using this word
"Buddy" likely evolved in 19th-century American English as an alteration of "brother," and it remains one of the most common informal words for a friend.
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