CRONY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crony mean? 

• CRONY (noun)
  The noun CRONY has 1 sense:

1. a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

  Familiarity information: CRONY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

brother; buddy; chum; crony; pal; sidekick

Hypernyms ("crony" is a kind of...):

friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crony"):

cobber (Australian term for a pal)

 Context examples 

But I take it that it is more likely to be some crony of the landlady’s.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These men, who slaughtered English, gesticulated like lunatics, and fought one another's ideas with primitive anger, seemed somehow to be more alive than Mr. Morse and his crony, Mr. Butler.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A fortnight later, by excellent good fortune, the doctor gave one of his pleasant dinners to some five or six old cronies, all intelligent, reputable men and all judges of good wine; and Mr. Utterson so contrived that he remained behind after the others had departed.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I could see from the old fellow's self-satisfied air and the way in which he looked round for the approval of his cronies that he was "showing off," so I put in a word to keep him going:—Oh, Mr. Swales, you can't be serious.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I tell ye that when they got here they'd be jommlin' an' jostlin' one another that way that it 'ud be like a fight up on the ice in the old days, when we'd be at one another from daylight to dark, an' tryin' to tie up our cuts by the light of the aurora borealis." This was evidently local pleasantry, for the old man cackled over it, and his cronies joined in with gusto.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)