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hail
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hail-fellow-well-met (old-fashioned)
a man who is hail-fellow-well-met is very friendly and pleasant, often in a way that you do not trust. He was a hail-fellow-well-met sort of a man who'd greet you with a big slap on the back.
hail from somewhere
to come from a place. Both John and Liza hail from South Carolina.
Usage notes: sometimes used in referring to someone's background: Many of our students hail from poor backgrounds.
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With Greek and Turkish combat fighters colliding in mock dogfights over the Aegean, while their coast guards fought a war of loud hailers over territorial waters down below, this spring was a season of flashbacks in relations between these two long-standing antagonists.
Cyprus' May 21 election: low voter turnout, rejection of Annan Plan ... by Gorvett, Jon / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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