pal up

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pal up

verb pals up · palling up · palled up

Australia, UK, informal, intransitive To become friends. He'd happened to pal up with a Free French bloke who'd been in the orthopaedic wards, and when this fellow went home with a couple of bone grafts Rushleigh got an invitation to stay at his place down at Nice, buckshee.
Similar: buddy up
To form an alliance. WHEN union-busting coal operators and the sowers of red philosopies "pal" up together it is the beginning of a situation that affects the entire country.

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@misc{pal_up_2026,
  title = {pal up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pal%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}