friend of mine

Noun

Meaning

friend of mine (plural friends of mine)

(US, Mafia, slang) A personal friend of the speaker/writer who is not a member of the Mafia.
Coordinate term: friend of ours

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

house sitter

Examples

Chaos is a friend of mine. Bob Dylan

Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. Lloyd Bentsen

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here. Steven Wright

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing. Hermann Hesse

And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that. Barry McGuire

He who is no friend to the good cause is no friend of mine. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

friend of Bill W. friend of Bluey friend of Dorothy friend of ours friend of the court friend of the earth