bosom buddy
Americannoun
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a close or intimate friend; bosom friend.
I didn't lack for friends, but had no particular bosom buddy.
Since third grade she and I have been kindred spirits and bosom buddies.
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a nefarious associate or co-conspirator.
After the Soviet takeover in 1920, the building was occupied by one of Stalin's bosom buddies.
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Etymology
Origin of bosom buddy
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Charles Lummis, a Harvard dropout and bosom buddy of Teddy Roosevelt’s, had caught malaria in Ohio.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
He also warned Democrats that his bosom buddy could win reelection in a 40-state landslide.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019
“Divines” is, rather, a tale of young adulthood, centered on the relationship between the film’s two teen-age leads, Dounia and her bosom buddy Maimouna.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 9, 2017
Edward House, Wilson’s bosom buddy and seeming comrade-in-arms, portrayed by Harry Groener as a strong-willed, somewhat condescending ally.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2015
Raw and emotional, disinclined toward introspection, he had the kind of gregarious, magnetic personality that instantly won him friends for life; hundreds of individuals—including some he’d met just once or twice—considered him a bosom buddy.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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