palled; palling
: to be or become pals : associate as pals
they've palled around for years
Synonyms
Examples of pal in a Sentence
Noun
We've been pals since we were kids.
Come on—be a pal and lend me the money.
Verb
they began to pal around after discovering that they both had kids on the same soccer team
Recent Examples on the Web
Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
Mickey and his pals mingle with guests during breakfast and brunch at Storytellers Cafe at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
Sign up Love is Blue: A Wartime Diary Joan Wyndham, 1986
Vivid, delicious fun, as 19-year-old Joan and her pals Gussy, Pandora and Oscarine, all of them newly bedecked in the blue serge uniform of the WAAF, are billeted in Preston, Lancashire – a very long way indeed from Chelsea.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 20 Sep. 2024
Settling into the burgeoning Haight-Ashbury music scene, Gravenites — who sang, played the guitar and harmonica and was a prolific songwriter — teamed with his old Chicago pal Bloomfield to form the Electric Flag in 1967.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024
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Noun
On these two evenings, last April, Kristofferson was in Los Angeles helping an all-star cast of musicians pay tribute to his old pal, collaborator, and Highwaymen bandmate Willie Nelson on the occasion of Nelson’s 90th birthday.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2024
Mickey and his pals mingle with guests during breakfast and brunch at Storytellers Cafe at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
Sign up Love is Blue: A Wartime Diary Joan Wyndham, 1986
Vivid, delicious fun, as 19-year-old Joan and her pals Gussy, Pandora and Oscarine, all of them newly bedecked in the blue serge uniform of the WAAF, are billeted in Preston, Lancashire – a very long way indeed from Chelsea.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 20 Sep. 2024
Settling into the burgeoning Haight-Ashbury music scene, Gravenites — who sang, played the guitar and harmonica and was a prolific songwriter — teamed with his old Chicago pal Bloomfield to form the Electric Flag in 1967.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024
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“Pal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pal. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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pal
1 of 2 noun
: a close friend
pal
2 of 2 verb
palled; palling
: to be or become pals
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