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m80

m80 is the informal form of matey.

Meaning of matey

Noun

matey (plural mateys)

  1. (slang) A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate.
    • Ahoy mateys, scrub the deck!
  2. (slang) A dockyard worker.
    • He got the dockyard 'mateys' to install a primitive form of steam heating which he had seen in Navy ships […]1979, Alfred Draper, Operation Fish: The Race to Save Europe's Wealth, 1939-1945, page 48

See all 4 meanings of matey

Forms of m80

pluralm80s
pluralm80's

Questions about m80

What is m80 the informal form of?
M80 is the informal form of matey.

Words near m80 in the dictionary

  1. M4s
  2. M62 corridor
  3. M74 syndrome
  4. m8
  5. m8's
  6. m80
  7. M81
  8. M85
  9. m8s
  10. m9
  11. M98

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Adapted from Wiktionary: m80 (page history and authors); matey (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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