Best friend
Best friend noun - The one friend who is closest to you.
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Pal and best friend are semantically related. in intimate friend topic. In some cases you can use "Pal" instead a noun phrase "Best friend".
Pal
Pal noun - A person who has a strong liking for and trust in another.
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- Fourth-Grade Celebrity has Casey, a girl, who has Walter, a boy, as her best friend, while she writes letters to a female pen pal.
Source: Platonic Boy/Girl Heroes -
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal toys with the trope a bit, since Biff was Jesus' best friend before he hit it big.
Source: Pals with Jesus -
Bucky's cousin from Manchester, Mac Manc McManx, speaks in Mancusian dialect and is largely unintelligible to the rest of the cast."Cracking dinner medals." Black Best Friend: Rob's pal Joe Doman, although he's not seen much these days since relocating to France.
Source: Comic Strip / Get Fuzzy
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