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• s  heartily friendly and congenial

• That evening Jesse Jones went to a gala party of Washington's hail-fellow Alfalfa Club, but his heart was not in the fun.
• Instead, Debbie gives Tony a hearty, hail-fellow look and asks: "Don't you know me? Look at me, George.
• He rarely attended the hail-fellow parties other automen love, even more rarely invited the brass to his homea modest, $50,000 English Tudor house near the University of .

• comradely
• hail-fellow-well-met

Quotes

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• Tim Kaine in MSNBC
  He is not a backslapper,Kaine said. "There are different models that succeed in politics. There's the hail-fellow-well-met model of backslapping. That's not his style."
• Michael Bond in Times Online
  Nor did we expect to be tripped up by jealousy, bureaucracy, trades unions and political correctness - or that we would be naive enough to entrust our business to what Michael calls "the kind of hail-fellow-well-met character who might buttonhole...