pal around

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pal around

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From pal + around.

verb pals around · palling around · palled around

  1. informal, intransitive To spend time with someone as a friend. John plans to pal around with Joe today.

    Similar: hang around

  2. broadly, informal, intransitive To associate with someone, especially secretly or when viewed as objectionable; to fraternize. If independents do turn out, it’s hard to see them turning out en masse for Lake, whose campaign is fueled more by outrage and theatrics than by any suggestion that she's ready to run a fast growing state of 7.2 million people. She has endorsed candidates who show an appalling tendency to pal around

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@misc{pal_around_2026,
  title = {pal around},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pal%20around},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}