next friend
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of next friend
before 900; Middle English; Old English
Example Sentences
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Why not invite your next friend who reaches out to walk along Alki or Seward Park instead?
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2017
Technically hired as counsel by Edelman who claimed legal status as "next friend" of the Rosenbergs, the two lawyers developed a special argument.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a rise which thus has more of Dale Carnegie than Horatio Alger in it, the next friend whom Ed Stettinius won and influenced was U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
There's no confidence betrayed, for when I 'm talking with a lady, I always adapt my remarks to the ears of her next friend.
From Potts's Painless Cure 1898 by Bellamy, Edward
Nay, John Ireton, you need not fear me, though I am just now this redcoat captain's next friend.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis
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