A friend who supports a person who is recovering from addiction and tries to prevent them relapsing.

(informal) A familiar term of address for a boy; sonny, laddie.

A surname.

Parenting that uses a very friendly approach rather than an authoritarian one.

plural of buddy parent

A parent who uses a very friendly approach to raising children rather than an authoritarian one.

(computing theory) A block of memory associated with another block and able to be merged with it, in the system of buddy memory allocation.

plural of buddy block

Cultivated varieties of either of two species of bamboo, Bambusa tuldoides and Bambusa vulgaris, with swollen internodes that look like a human torso with a fat belly when the plants are grown in pots.

plural of Buddha belly bamboo