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buddyroo

buddyroo noun: a close friend or pal.

Noun

buddyroo (plural buddyroos)

  1. (slang) A close friend or pal.
    • You'd thought they'd taken baths in the same bathtub or something when they were little kids. Old buddyroos. It was nauseating.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 165

Forms of buddyroo

pluralbuddyroos

Origin of buddyroo

Popularized by The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.

Questions about buddyroo

What does buddyroo mean?
Buddyroo means a close friend or pal.
What part of speech is buddyroo?
Buddyroo is a noun.
What is the plural of buddyroo?
The plural of buddyroo is buddyroos.

Words near buddyroo in the dictionary

  1. buddylist
  2. buddylists
  3. buddyness
  4. Buddyroll
  5. Buddyrolls
  6. buddyroo
  7. buddyroos
  8. buddyslash
  9. Bude
  10. Bude burner
  11. Bude burners

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