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pen pal

noun

  1. a person with whom one keeps up an exchange of letters, usually someone so far away that a personal meeting is unlikely:

    My niece in Texas has a pen pal in France.



pen pal

noun

  1. a person with whom one regularly exchanges letters, often a person in another country whom one has not met Also calledpen friend
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Origin of pen pal1

An Americanism dating back to 1935–40
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“He’s just an incredibly loving soul,†said actor Debra Winger, a pen pal and close friend of Robbins’.

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It blossomed with her friends and umpteen pen pals and reached full flower at the Malibu Cinema, the movie theater that she and her husband operated for two decades in the heart of Malibu.

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The teen pen pals live in their version of “Sleepless in Seattle†nearly missing each other in landmarks across the city.

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In a preprint posted recently to bioRxiv, Li and his team identify three of the brain’s pen pals in the insects.

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Sullivan said Peck showed him letters and photos that he exchanged with pen pal Gacy.

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