good buddy
Trucker's radio greeting
Good buddy is CB radio slang for a fellow trucker or radio operator, popularized in the 1970s trucking culture: What's your twenty, good buddy?
The term spread into general use as a friendly address between men, though it sounds dated now.
In some contexts, good buddy became code for a gay man, which hastened its decline in casual use.
- best friendMost trusted companion
- palClose trusted companion
- truckerCommercial freight driver
- CB radioCitizens Band transceiver
- friendNon-kin mutual bond
old pal · comrade · sidekick · partner · amigo · chum · mate · companion · highway · convoy · big rig · road · truck stop · breaker · come in · handle · eighteen-wheeler · long haul
- truckingsemi, 18-wheeler, trucks, truckers, big rig
- radio lingoroger, copy, over, out, 10-4
- CB cultureCB, CB radio, breaker, ten-four, smokey
- two-way radiostwo-way radio, walkie-talkie, walkie talkie, portable radio, transceiver
good buddyenemy
Hostile opposing party
sworn enemy · mortal enemy · foe · worst enemy · arch-nemesis
good buddystranger
Person not yet known
complete stranger · ex-friend · acquaintance · nobody · fair-weather friend