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buddy-buddy

Date: Jun 16 2004

Quote

1. Quote - Listen to the quote and guess what the slang means.

“(Detroit) was a very small scene and it just so happened that even one who enjoyed music also played music, so it was kind of this really buddy-buddy family of people.”
- Carrie Smith (member of the Von Bondies, a band out of Michigan, discussing the atmosphere of the Detroit music scene in Venus Magazine – Spring 2004)

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

We use buddy-buddy to mean when people are very friendly with one another, like when you go to a bar and everyone is very open and chatty.

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

This term can be used with either a positive or a negative meaning. For example, when someone is being buddy-buddy with you to out of personal motivations, this would have a negative meaning. Otherwise the term buddy-buddy means being very friendly with one another. How is it used in the quotation above?

Examples

1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.

“The used car salesman was getting all buddy-buddy with me. When we started negotiating the price of the car, everything changed!”

“The used car salesman was getting all buddy-buddy with me. When we started negotiating the price of the car, everything changed!
Hey…look at Sarah and Mike. They look like they are getting pretty buddy-buddy over there. I wonder if they like each other.
Jack is really quite friendly, as soon as he meets someone new, he gets buddy-buddy with them and makes them feel right at home.
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“Hey…look at Sarah and Mike. They look like they are getting pretty buddy-buddy over there. I wonder if they like each other.”

“Jack is really quite friendly, as soon as he meets someone new, he gets buddy-buddy with them and makes them feel right at home.”

Winners

1. Winners - See who guessed the slang definition correctly.

very chummy, close, familiar
by Peggy (Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
rapport, friendly, relaxed relation ship
by cynthia (toronto, Canada)
Buddy-buddy means very friendly, hospitable.
by Filiberto (Coccanile, Italy)
very close and familiar
by lin (sh, china)
People just say that about people when they act friendly towards each other. eg. Tom and Jim are “buddy buddy”.
by Emily (Qinhuangdao, China)
just like friend to friend ,enjoy music ,meanwhile ,play it .close relationship
by briteny (XUZHOU, China)
that means very close
by jessica (dalian, China)
it means affectionate.people is on a good terms with each other.
by Chrisy (wuhan, china)
Buddy-buddy means very close, friendly, intimate.
by Sherry (ShenZhen, China)
i think it means a very close relationship like brothers
by Ivy (penang, malaysia)
BUDDY-BUDDY is equal to very close.
by ivy (GUANGZHOU, CHINA)
I think, it means friendly people.
by Geni (Bloomington, U.S.A)
Buddy-Buddy means “very friendly”
by vinothkumar (coimbatore, india)
it means “overwhemling over the loved one”
by POORNAKUMAR (Coimbatore, India)
Very close friends;Showing great outward friendship.
by Michael (nanchang, China)
When the people handle the stress.
by David (Bogota, Colombia)
maybe it means “so-so”,the opposite to “professional”,but I am really not sure.
by sandy (small, big)