English

Alternative forms

• hail-fellow-well-met

Noun

hail fellow well met ‎(plural hail fellows well met)

1. A sociable, friendly, usually male person.
   • 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn,

     All his life he had been a jolly hail fellow well met: he had put on a rather becoming paunch,... his manners were easy and indolent,....

   • 1990, James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Penguin, ISBN 0140184023, page 60,

     I was a hail fellow well met with all of the workmen at the factory, most of whom knew little and cared less about social distinctions.