Close pals

Usage examples of buddies.

Sarah went home to infect her husband and his five poker buddies and her teenaged daughter, Samantha.

Sometimes one man says something about himself that he didn’t aim to let slip, and one of his buddies at the table where he said it yawns and gets up and sidles over to the big log book by the Nurses’ Station and writes down the piece of information he heard—of therapeutic interest to the whole ward, is what the Big Nurse says the book is for, but I know she’s just waiting to get enough evidence to have some guy reconditioned at the Main Building, overhauled in the head to straighten out the trouble.

That window-breaking—Lord, I thought, here’s a man that seems to actually want to stay in this hospital, stick with his buddies and all that sort of thing, until I realized that McMurphy was doing it because he didn’t want to lose a good thing.

But now everybody knew—even George, leaning backward, shaking his head, covering himself with big oakleaf hands—that this black boy, with his nose busted and his insides soured and his two buddies standing behind him waiting to see what he would do, couldn’t afford to pass up the chance.

Nor even out of distraction or forgetfulness or because he smoked dope with his buddies or exhaustion--you know, John Reddy never got enough sleep.

Speaking for his less articulate buddies, Dougie Siefried rolled his eyes, moaning, "That woman is sex-y," making suggestive motions like he was trying his damnedest to keep his hands off his crotch.

Smoke grumbled to his buddies how pissed he'd been telling the of the Circle this story about John Reddy he believed would impress hell out of them, only to have them go into practically a trance.

John Reddy was talking with his buddies Orrie Buhr, Calvo, Clyde Meunzer, leaning against the acid-green Caddie and passing a butt among them (a reefer?

Nor did you see John Reddy in his leather jacket and jeans, longish hair whipping in the wind, out there joking with his buddies.

Good-bye to the "Original Ice Princess"--as Ken spoke of Verrie Myers to his buddies.

Though angry at Mary Louise Schultz for dropping him, to resume dating suave Smoke who now drove a sexy red Thunderbird, Art Lutz continued to dream helplessly of her and to stare after her, at school, with such an expression of dopey longing, his own buddies hadn't the heart to laugh at him.

Senior Prom King Ken Fischer who'd killed himself for some personal or professional reason years ago couldn't be among us of course, but where were his old buddies Bo Bozer, Tommy Nordstrom?

Even Eickhorn drifting at the periphery of the party feeling estranged from his old Chess Club buddies and vigilant for Evangeline Fesnacht, E.

The Kid was irrational, impulsive, what Carley Yates and his poolhall buddies would have called crazier than a shithouse rat.

He remembered the night he had stopped for a couple of beers in Zack's, the ginmill on the outskirts of Shoyo—the night Ray Booth and his buddies had jumped him.