Definition of "hail-fellow-well-met" [hail-fellow-well-met]

• Sociable, friendly. (adjective)
• Alternative spelling of hail fellow well met: a sociable, friendly person. (noun)

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• "My father was reserved and modest, the opposite of a hail-fellow-well-met."
• "Smilin 'Al was the hail-fellow-well-met guy, the man who would later smuggle a 6-iron onto Apollo 14 in 1971 and become the first man to play golf in space."
• "Of course those are skills Bush would have as a politician, but Cousin X was impressed by his hail-fellow-well-met good nature that seemed quite sincere, and Bush's genuine good sense."