Officer Friendly
A police officer.
I was pulled over by Officer Friendly last night.
adj
Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
Your cat seems very friendly.
They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups. The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits.
Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.
He gave a friendly smile.
Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.
a user-friendly software program
a dog-friendly café
Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).
The cobbled streets aren't very bike-friendly.
Organic farms only use soil-friendly fertilisers.
Without any hostility.
a friendly competition
a friendly power or state
noun
A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting, etc.
This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.
Brazil provided a different test from Germany and gave England lessons Southgate will store before he gets his squad together again for friendlies against the Netherlands in Amsterdam and at home to Italy in March.
A person or entity on the same side as one's own in a conflict.
These were speedily routed by the friendlies, who attacked the small force before them in fine style.
You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).
adv
In a friendly manner; like a friend.
And looke we friendly on them when they come: But if they offer word or violence, Weele fight fiue hundred men at armes to one, Before we part with our poſſeſſion: […]
And we cannot doubt, our Brothers in Physick [...] will friendly accept, if not countenance our endeavours.