buddyroo
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Etymology edit
Popularized by The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
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buddyroo (plural buddyroos)
- (slang) A close friend or pal.
- 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 165:
- You'd thought they'd taken baths in the same bathtub or something when they were little kids. Old buddyroos. It was nauseating.