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chum

noun as in friend

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I convinced my friend Maggie, a college chum and fellow writer, to join me.

During the past few months, Microsoft Exchange servers have been like chum in a shark-feeding frenzy.

He trained a $17,000 horse he dubbed “The Fish” for his wavy thinness, the 1998 near-Triple Crown winner Real Quiet, for the chum who helped him into thoroughbreds, the McDonald’s-franchises owner Mike Pegram.

Orphaned by the time she was 12, Eleanor had been long told that she was homely and plain but school chums knew her as a caring girl with a sharp mind.

The difference is that options trading has a starker win-lose dynamic, one where amateurs are chum for the veterans.

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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.

When a chum updates his status, a little yellow badge in the edge alerts you.

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

The most entertaining of the latter came from John Culver, a former senator from Iowa and a college chum of Kennedy's.

Bobby attended this institution of learning with his particular chum and the boys had no end of good times.

The formula for the date of its foundation in 1636 may be thus expressed—Harvard College founded; the chum age .

On the broken porch of the abandoned house Amy stopped and waited for her chum to overtake her.

Her chum leaned against the door jamb while peal after peal of laughter shook her.

Her chum came leaping up the hill behind her, having moored the canoe with one hitch.

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On this page you'll find 33 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to chum, such as: buddy, comrade, crony, playmate, associate, and companion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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