old chum
Britishnoun
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a person who is experienced, esp in life in colonial Australia
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an experienced convict
Example Sentences
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"I'll interrupt no more old chum, the stage is now all yours".
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2020
Lunched with Angie Dickinson again the other day, an actress of some distinction and about as wonderful an old chum as you’re ever going to have.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2017
He introduced his bill in the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, where an influential member was Delaware Senator Tom Carper - Bullock’s old chum and former boss.
From Reuters ● Aug. 24, 2016
And Steven, the most melodramatic of a melodramatic lot, finds himself asking his old, old chum Matt, in capital letters, “WHO ARE YOU?”
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2015
I gladly said yes, and, noting his heightened color and his evident embarrassment, bade him pull up a chair and talk to me as he would to an old chum.
From Kitty's Conquest by King, Charles
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