A partner for a particular activity.
An informal and friendly address to a stranger; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.
A friend or casual acquaintance.
A person far removed from the conversation.
Resembling a bud.
To assign a buddy, or partner, to.
An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher.
A member of a confederacy.
An accomplice in a plot.
To combine in a confederacy.
of, relating to, or united in a confederacy
banded together; allied.