"pal up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pals up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "palling up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "palled up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "palled up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pal up (third-person singular simple present pals up, present participle palling up, simple past and past participle palled up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 11 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 17 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1955, Richard Gordon, Doctor At Large, House of Stratus",
          "text": "He'd happened to pal up with a Free French bloke who'd been in the orthopaedic wards, and when this fellow went home with a couple of bone grafts Rushleigh got an invitation to stay at his place down at Nice, buckshee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Laurie Graham, The Ten O'Clock Horses, Hachette UK",
          "text": "... you could make a bit of conversation.' 'I don't want to. I'm on holiday with my family. I don't want to pal up with some bloke from the Pru, just because he's asked me to pass the sauce.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, David Seabrook, Jack of Jumps, Granta Publications",
          "text": "Normally in the CID you'd pal up with somebody, but nobody seemed to be his pal. 'He was creepy, a creepy type of bloke, you know. He always seemed to be hanging around, and he always seemed to be bloody listening to other people's[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become friends."
      ],
      "id": "en-pal_up-en-verb--~c7Inbz",
      "links": [
        [
          "friend",
          "friend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, informal, UK, Australia) To become friends."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "78 22 0",
          "word": "buddy up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1928, United Mine Workers Journal - Volume 39, page 6",
          "text": "WHEN union-busting coal operators and the sowers of red philosopies \"pal\" up together it is the beginning of a situation that affects the entire country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Women of China, page 14",
          "text": "Governmental and/or non-governmental organizations may \"pal up\" with schools for migrant children to provide assistance — such as contributions, teaching and protecting the students' rights and interests.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Christopher Harvie, A Floating Commonwealth, page 103",
          "text": "Recreating the Scottish enlightenment-inspired liberalism of the 1790s, Ulster would cancel out a Catholic authoritarianism only too prone to pal up with the Tom Broadbents of British capitalism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To form an alliance."
      ],
      "id": "en-pal_up-en-verb-SOa9P~cg",
      "links": [
        [
          "alliance",
          "alliance"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "To form a small group."
      ],
      "id": "en-pal_up-en-verb-Ow9zsSxM",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, informal) To form a small group."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pal up"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pals up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "palling up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "palled up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "palled up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pal up (third-person singular simple present pals up, present participle palling up, simple past and past participle palled up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Australian English",
        "British English",
        "English informal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1955, Richard Gordon, Doctor At Large, House of Stratus",
          "text": "He'd happened to pal up with a Free French bloke who'd been in the orthopaedic wards, and when this fellow went home with a couple of bone grafts Rushleigh got an invitation to stay at his place down at Nice, buckshee.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Laurie Graham, The Ten O'Clock Horses, Hachette UK",
          "text": "... you could make a bit of conversation.' 'I don't want to. I'm on holiday with my family. I don't want to pal up with some bloke from the Pru, just because he's asked me to pass the sauce.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, David Seabrook, Jack of Jumps, Granta Publications",
          "text": "Normally in the CID you'd pal up with somebody, but nobody seemed to be his pal. 'He was creepy, a creepy type of bloke, you know. He always seemed to be hanging around, and he always seemed to be bloody listening to other people's[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become friends."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "friend",
          "friend"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, informal, UK, Australia) To become friends."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1928, United Mine Workers Journal - Volume 39, page 6",
          "text": "WHEN union-busting coal operators and the sowers of red philosopies \"pal\" up together it is the beginning of a situation that affects the entire country.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Women of China, page 14",
          "text": "Governmental and/or non-governmental organizations may \"pal up\" with schools for migrant children to provide assistance — such as contributions, teaching and protecting the students' rights and interests.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Christopher Harvie, A Floating Commonwealth, page 103",
          "text": "Recreating the Scottish enlightenment-inspired liberalism of the 1790s, Ulster would cancel out a Catholic authoritarianism only too prone to pal up with the Tom Broadbents of British capitalism.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To form an alliance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "alliance",
          "alliance"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To form a small group."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, informal) To form a small group."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "buddy up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pal up"
}