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

(informal) A friend with whom one primarily communicates online.

plural of e-buddy

(computing theory) A form of memory allocation that divides memory into partitions to try to satisfy a memory request as suitably as possible.