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buddying up

buddying up is the present participle and gerund 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 buddying up

What is buddying up the present participle and gerund of?
Buddying up is the present participle and gerund of buddy up.

Words near buddying up in the dictionary

  1. buddy wrapping
  2. buddy-buddies
  3. buddy-buddy
  4. buddyhood
  5. buddying
  6. buddying up
  7. buddyish
  8. buddylist
  9. buddylists
  10. buddyness
  11. Buddyroll

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buddying 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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