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galpal

noun
/ˈɡælpæl/

Etymology

From gal + pal, chosen for the rhyme.

  1. derived from भ्रातृ — “brother”
  2. derived from phral — “brother”
  3. borrowed from pal — “brother, friend”
  4. compounded as galpal — “gal + pal”

Definitions

  1. A female friend or girlfriend.

    • "Drew dumps boyfriend and shacks up with gay galpal."
    • My kid and her galpals all played this song five hundred thousand times in a row when they first brought it home...
    • It is there he first sees Lynn Halsey-Taylor, an up-and-coming young country singer played by Eastwood's then-galpal Sondra Locke.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA