"pal around" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: pals around [present, singular, third-person], palling around [participle, present], palled around [participle, past], palled around [past]
Etymology: From pal + around. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|pal|around}} pal + around Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pal around (third-person singular simple present pals around, present participle palling around, simple past and past participle palled around)
  1. (intransitive, informal) To spend time with someone as a friend. Tags: informal, intransitive Categories (topical): Friendship Synonyms: hang around Related terms: buddy-buddy
    Sense id: en-pal_around-en-verb-e5Y9SAHe Disambiguation of Friendship: 91 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "around", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "around": 76 24 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 70 30 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 73 27
  2. (intransitive, informal, by extension) To associate with someone, especially secretly or when viewed as objectionable; to fraternize. Tags: broadly, informal, intransitive
    Sense id: en-pal_around-en-verb-IQ4vZavL

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2022 July 6, Laurie Roberts, “Independent voters, take note: Kari Lake still leads in latest poll of GOP governor's race”, in Yahoo! News:",
          "text": "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 around with white nationalists.",
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          "ref": "2023 April 10, Jennifer Bendery, quoting Sheldon Whitehouse, “Senate Democrats Urge John Roberts To Probe Clarence Thomas' Undisclosed Gifts”, in HuffPost:",
          "text": "“This Supreme Court has lost its ethical compass,” Whitehouse, who chairs the Judiciary’s subcommittee on court oversight, said in a statement. “It’s no wonder that the American people are losing faith in the idea that they can get a fair shake before the nation’s highest court when they see a Supreme Court justice openly flouting basic disclosure rules in order to pal around with billionaires in secret.”",
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