(British) Friendlily, like a mate.
McCormack rounded a bush and Chisholm reared up out of nowhere, a grinning scarecrow, his arm wrapped matily round the boy's shoulders, a pistol jammed against the boy's temple.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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A friend, usually of the same sex.
Universal Australian and British word for a friend. Can also be a warning — "oi, mate" means someone's in trouble. The tone carries everything. Works as greeting, address, filler, passive-aggressive rebuke, and emotional-support punctuation in the same conversation.
Friendly term of address to a stranger, usually male, of similar age.
(British, informal) A supposed surname for a friendless person.
(slang) , mate, friend.