best friend ** , also: best mate BrE informal , also: bezzie informal

By the next week, the best friends had become a couple.

My best friend through high school and college was a black guy, John.

We'll never be best friends, but we have a working relationship.

She knew him as more than her son's best friend.

I mean, some of my best friends are white people.

In a very real sense, he had lost his best friend.

Something inside him had always thought her one of his best friends.

He was one of the best friends I ever had.

Not only family, his four best friends in the world.

You've always been the best friend I could ever hope to have.

He had to find a way to help his best friend, and soon.

I feel like a girl again, having my best friend come to stay.

You have to be best friends and work as a team.

Why, she is the very best friend I have in the world.

Came on to you like he was your best friend.

He was now a man in love with his best friend.

She has been my best friend since our school days.

They soon become her best friends at the high school.

And in the process, he'd lost at least two of his best friends.

His mother was my best friend when we were young.

One of his best friends in the world was gone.

The people I've met along the way have become my best friends.

He's the best friend I ever had on this job.

She did not know that I am now my own best friend.

Or your best friend has one and told you about it.