pal
noun [C] /pæl/ informalDefinition
› a friend: You're my best pal. It's my old pal Pete!Friends, acquaintances and contemporaries › [as form of address] used when talking to a man, sometimes in a friendly way but more often to a man who is annoying you: Look, pal, you're asking for trouble.Friendly and unfriendly terms of address
(Definition of pal noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- a friend in need is a friend indeed idiom
- acquaintance noun
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