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• s  heartily friendly and congenial

• No hail-fellow-well-met, he is not on easy, congenial terms with the average handshaking, backslapping Senators.
• Returning arms inspectors can expect the hail-fellow-well-met treatment from Baghdad -- at least for now.
• He is no hail-fellow-well-met with Studebaker's dealers, and knows very few of them.

• comradely
• hail-fellow

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...