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hail-fellow-well-met

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Adjective

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hail-fellow-well-met (not comparable)

  1. Sociable, friendly.

Noun

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hail-fellow-well-met (plural hail-fellow-well-mets or hail-fellows-well-met)

  1. Alternative spelling of hail fellow well met: a sociable, friendly person.
    • 2003, James Patterson, Peter De Jonge, chapter 17, in Beach House, Warner Books, →ISBN:
      My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met.