pal around with
phrasal verb
palled around with; palling around with; pals around with
informal, chiefly US
: to spend time with (someone) as a friend
She's been palling around with a girl she met at school.
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Mercury gets energetic with Mars, pals around with regenerative Pluto, and then skips away from Scorpio to Sagittarius.
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Jennifer Culp, Them, 25 Oct. 2024
After all, the online dad stereotype projects an unflappable kind of quiet, suburban normalcy: one that contrasts harshly with Vance’s status as a venture capitalist who pals around with Silicon Valley reactionaries such as Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024
Marine, dressed in a Lululemon hoodie and Nike sneakers, palled around with Ryan Fitzpatrick, the former quarterback turned studio analyst for Amazon.
—Ben Strauss, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
People attending a university hockey match or football game might now see the county’s Otter mascot palling around with his new university friend Goldy the Gopher.
—Nick Fouriezos, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024
In Fred Wilcox’s pace-setting flagship film, Lassie pals around with a young Roddy McDowall and takes a bite out of U.K. class tensions by rejecting her sale from her kindly blue-collar custodians to a haughty Duke.
—Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2024
Jennifer Tilly palling around with Sutton Stracke last season and in season 14, Tilly is officially joining the cast as a friend.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 23 May 2024
Amy Jade Winehouse could have been any young woman growing up in 1990s London — palling around with her mates, sneaking lagers, shagging dudes, getting into trouble, getting her nose pierced, and getting expelled from drama school for it.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
In an era where too many politicians declare the press the enemy, someone who had palled around with a white supremacist group had gotten away with physically striking a reporter.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
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Jennifer Culp, Them, 25 Oct. 2024
After all, the online dad stereotype projects an unflappable kind of quiet, suburban normalcy: one that contrasts harshly with Vance’s status as a venture capitalist who pals around with Silicon Valley reactionaries such as Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024
Marine, dressed in a Lululemon hoodie and Nike sneakers, palled around with Ryan Fitzpatrick, the former quarterback turned studio analyst for Amazon.
—Ben Strauss, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
People attending a university hockey match or football game might now see the county’s Otter mascot palling around with his new university friend Goldy the Gopher.
—Nick Fouriezos, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2024
In Fred Wilcox’s pace-setting flagship film, Lassie pals around with a young Roddy McDowall and takes a bite out of U.K. class tensions by rejecting her sale from her kindly blue-collar custodians to a haughty Duke.
—Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2024
Jennifer Tilly palling around with Sutton Stracke last season and in season 14, Tilly is officially joining the cast as a friend.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 23 May 2024
Amy Jade Winehouse could have been any young woman growing up in 1990s London — palling around with her mates, sneaking lagers, shagging dudes, getting into trouble, getting her nose pierced, and getting expelled from drama school for it.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
In an era where too many politicians declare the press the enemy, someone who had palled around with a white supremacist group had gotten away with physically striking a reporter.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
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