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cronies
1
a close friend or companion, often used in a more negative or informal context
- He's always with his cronies, making shady deals.
- They've been business cronies for years, and no one trusts them.
- She's hanging out with her old cronies at the bar tonight.
- Those two are inseparable, always getting into trouble together, like a couple of cronies.
- After years of being cronies, they started to turn against each other.