Dictionary Definition
buddy n : a close friend who accompanies his
buddies in their activities [syn: brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌdi
Noun
Translations
friend or casual acquaintance
partner for a particular activity
- Dutch: drinkebroer
- Finnish: kaveri, toveri
- German: Kollege
- Polish: kolega
See also
Extensive Definition
Buddy may refer to:
- A friend
- A partner for a particular activity
- Buddy (dog), pet of former U.S. President Bill Clinton
- Buddy memory allocation, a dynamic memory allocation system for computers.
- Buddy system, any system in which two people work together, especially for safety reasons
In Brands and products
- Buddy (scooter), a motorscooter sold in the U.S. by Genuine Scooters and manufactured by PGO Scooters.
- Buddy (electric car)
In Entertainment and the arts
- Buddy (band), a California indie pop band
- Buddy (film), a 1997 motion picture about a gorilla named Buddy
- Buddy (novel), a novel by Nigel Hinton
- "Buddy" (song), a 1989 song by De La Soul
- Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story, a jukebox musical on the career of Buddy Holly
- B.U.D.D.Y., a 2007 single by Musiq Soulchild
Buddy is the name of:
As a given name or nickname:
- Buddy Bell, American baseball player
- Buddy DeFranco, American jazz clarinetist
- Buddy Ebsen, American actor best known for his role in The Beverly Hillbillies
- Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist
- Buddy Guy, American guitarist
- Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian
- Buddy Holly, pioneering American rock and roll musician
- Buddy Jewell, American country musician
- Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer and bandleader
- "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, American professional wrestler
As a nickname:
- Vincent Cianci, long-time mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
- Lance Franklin, Australian Rules Football player
- Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American actor and jazz musician
As the name of fictional characters:
- Buddy (Elf), the character played by Will Ferrell in the film Elf
- Buddy (Looney Tunes), an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes
- Buddy (The Short Circus), a member of The Short Circus on the American television series The Electric Company
- Buddy Lembeck, a character on the 1980s situation comedy Charles in Charge
- Buddy Bradley, the protagonist of Peter Bagge's comic book Hate!
- Little Buddy, The Skipper's pet name for Gilligan on the TV series Gilligan's Island
See also
buddy in German: Buddy
buddy in Dutch: Buddy
buddy in Norwegian: Buddy
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ace,
amigo, associate, aunt, auntie, bedfellow, bedmate, benchfellow, birthmate, blood brother,
bosom buddy, boy, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, buck, bud, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, chamberfellow, chum, classmate, clubmate, co-worker, colleague, colt, comate, companion, company, compeer, comrade, confrere, consociate, consort, copartner, copemate, copesmate, couchmate, country cousin,
cousin, cousin once
removed, cousin twice removed, cradlemate, crony, cub, cupmate, daughter, father, fellow, fellow student, fellow
worker, first cousin, fledgling, foster brother,
frater, general partner,
girl friend, gossip,
grandnephew,
grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt,
great-uncle, half brother, hobbledehoy, jailmate, kid brother, lad, laddie, manchild, master, mate, messmate, mother, muchacho, nephew, niece, nuncle, nunks, nunky, old crony, pal, pard, pardner, partner, pewmate, playfellow, playmate, pup, puppy, roommate, running mate,
schoolboy, schoolfellow, schoolmate, second cousin,
secret partner, shelfmate, shipmate, shopmate, side partner,
sidekick, sidekicker, silent partner,
sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, sleeping partner,
son, sonny, sonny boy, special partner,
stepbrother,
stepsister, tablemate, teammate, tentmate, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother, watchmate, waymate, whelp, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate, young man, youth