Meaning of pal up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To become friends.
   Australia, UK, informal, intransitive
2. To form an alliance.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“... you could make⟳ a bit of conversation.' 'I don't want⟳ to. I'm on holiday with my family. I don't want⟳ to pal up with some bloke from the Pru, just because he's asked me to pass⟳ the sauce.'”

“Normally in the CID you'd pal up with somebody, but nobody seemed to be his pal. 'He was creepy, a creepy type⟳ of bloke, you know⟳. He always seemed to be hanging around, and he always seemed to be bloody listening to other people's[…]”

“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.”

“Governmental and/or non-governmental organizations may "pal up" with schools for migrant children to provide⟳ assistance — such as contributions, teaching and protecting the students' rights and interests.”

“Recreating the Scottish enlightenment-inspired liberalism of the 1790s, Ulster would cancel⟳ out a Catholic authoritarianism only too prone to pal up with the Tom Broadbents of British capitalism.”

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