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old chum

noun

  1. a person who is experienced, esp in life in colonial Australia
  2. an experienced convict
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Those people will dial up their old chum at the Senator's office and demand to know why the Medicare actuaries want them to die.

The control, the power, the ownership of the show, all resided with others, including his old chum Fuller.

Captain Dodge was immensely pleased to see his old chum, and called him up into the pilot-house and gave him a cigar.

It was the first time for many months that the boy had crept up to his father in his old chum-like fashion.

They point out to you that your old chum, Richard, who is now a millionaire, was a poor boy like yourself.

Aileen laughed merrily at the matrimonial persistence of her old chum's thoughts.

Tom Larkyns, my old chum, who acted so wickedly in concert with me, when we blew up the schoolmaster and ran away to sea!

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