pal

You can up the ante even more by signing a contract agreeing to pay a pal $20 every time you skip Pilates.

With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."

But she was an exquisitely pretty and engaging little thing, a grand little pal, and worth cultivating.

If I felt that I could leave her in your charge, all on the square, as a real straight pal—I should go away happy.

They must have found out their pal here was going to sing and figured he probably told us too much already.

When Phil's pal left us he went wandering down the hillside, talking to himself.