birthday buddy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]birthday buddy (plural birthday buddies)
- (colloquial) A person who shares the same birthday as another person.
- 2011, Sandra Harnisch-Lacey, Steve Stickley, People Like Us: Life with Rob Lacey, Author of The Word on the Street[1], Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, →ISBN, page 110:
- Our lovely son had made his appearance, sharing a birthday with French playright Molière, Welsh actor and musician Ivor Novello and civil-rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. Not a bad pedigree of creative and inspirational birthday buddies. Oh, yes, Google also informs me that the online resource Wikipedia was launched on the very same day as Lukas.
- 2018, David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee, Weird Math: A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life[2], New York City: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 48:
- In other words, the question is not what are the odds of a particular pair of people sharing a birthday but of any pair of people, from all the different possible pairings, being birthday buddies.
Synonyms
[edit]- (person who shares the same birthday as another person): birthday twin