bestfriend

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English

Noun

bestfriend (plural bestfriends)

  1. (nonstandard) Alternative form of best friend
    • 1991, Ben Sonnenberg, “Multiple Sclerosis and the Single Man”, in Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy, The New York Review of Books, published 2020, →ISBN:
      Alice’s bestfriend was at the party. […] And the bestfriend would smile and look self-satisfied as plain bestfriends will. But the bestfriend’s bestfriend (they all had bestfriends) was not Alice. The bestfriend’s bestfriend was Sophie.
    • 2001, Catherine Vi Tran, “The Convent”, in Sense of Memory: Diary of a Bitter Heart, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 40:
      One of my bestfriends said raining was a sign to tell people that god was crying because of sadness caused by human. At the teenager age, I did not wonder why my bestfriend had that idea in his mind. I never cared about the silly feeling about the rain that my bestfriend had in his mind.
    • 2021, Yoga Pramartha, Diary of an Ordinary Contemplator: A Textbook for Quarter Life Crises, page iii:
      My sincere thanks go to: Arya Bayu Permadi, a great bestfriend, who has also contributed in this book as the co-editor. Bayu is one of few bestfriends who can understand me even without me uttering any word.
    • 2021, Rexie Reblando, “Bestfriend”, in Spoken Word Poetry, Ukiyoto Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:
      Sometimes it is hard to find the true bestfriend

Usage notes

This form has become popular recently but is still considered nonstandard.

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