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buddies up

buddies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of buddy up.

Meaning of buddy up

Verb

buddy up (third-person singular simple present buddies up, present participle buddying up, simple past and past participle buddied up)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To form small teams, especially pairs, often to reduce the likelihood of any one person suffering harm without being noticed or to suit the nature of a task to be accomplished
  2. To ally with, team up with, cooperate with.

Questions about buddies up

What is buddies up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Buddies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of buddy up.

Words near buddies up in the dictionary

  1. Buddicom
  2. Buddie
  3. buddied
  4. buddied up
  5. buddies
  6. buddies up
  7. buddiness
  8. budding
  9. budding off
  10. budding out
  11. budding up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buddies up (page history and authors); buddy up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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