Definition of "buddy-buddy" [buddy-buddy]

• Informal Showing or marked by great outward friendship. (adjective)

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• "Chrysler, in an apparent attempt to shed its fuddy-duddy image after all, they boast about being the originator and ruler of the minivan world, for a buddy-buddy one, tried desperately to show the world they were hip during an overly scripted press conference."
• "And I won't even mention the good old rhetorical parry--which one is disappointed to find under his pen--arguing that yesterday's cowardice Mitterrand, Chirac, Sarkozy, all of them buddy-buddy with the great financier of international terrorism justifies perseverance in inaction today."
• "So, you spend an entire primary campaign trying to brand me as a whackjob and crazy, and then when you get your ass beat, you expect me to be all buddy-buddy?"