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pal up

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verb

  1. informal to become friends (with)

    he palled up with the other boys
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And we are supposed to pal up with such people?

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2023

Cast your mind back to all the other times he’s tried to pal up to the mainstream, and how terribly it went then.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2019

"It was a wise choice that Helen and I didn't pal up and have dinner and get to know each other, so that awkwardness, unfamiliarity, nervousness, is all real."

From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2012

"He benefits from playing at home," said Fognini, who hugged his good pal up at the net after losing and asked for one of Roddick's shirts as a memento.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2012

I kept on seeing the same people, and a man who got in at Strasburg—I had seen him before at the hotel in Vienna—tried all he could to pal up to me.

From A Maker of History by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

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