pal around

Verb

pal around (third-person singular simple present pals around, present participle palling around, simple past and past participle palled around)

1. (informal, intransitive) To spend time with someone as a friend.
   • John plans to pal around with Joe today.
   • They had a respectful interaction, not a sour note between them, but they never palled around outside of work.2019, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, Sex and the City and Us, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 94

   Synonyms:

   hang around

2. (broadly, informal, intransitive) To associate with someone, especially secretly or when viewed as objectionable; to fraternize.
   • If independents do turn out, it’s hard to see them turning out en masse for Lake, whose campaign is fueled more by outrage and theatrics than by any suggestion that she's ready to run a fast growing state of 7.2 million people. She has endorsed candidates who show an appalling tendency to pal...2022 July 6, Laurie Roberts, “Independent voters, take note: Kari Lake still leads in latest poll of GOP governor's race”, in Yahoo! News, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022
   • “While Kim Reynolds and Chuck Grassley pal around with a defeated former president who continues to attack our democracy, Iowa Democrats are busy knocking doors, meeting Iowans where they are and mobilizing voters," Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn said in a statement.2022 November 3, Brianne Pfannenstiel, Tyler Jett, quoting Ross Wilburn, “Donald Trump teases Iowa crowd: 'I will very, very, very probably' run for president”, in Des Moines Register, archived from...