Partners

What do we mean by partners?

Someone who is associated with another in a common activity or interest.

One of the pieces of wood comprising the framework which strengthens the deck of a wooden ship around the holes through which the mast and other fittings pass.

A group financial arrangement in which each member contributes a set amount of money over a set period.

A person that you will have at some point. Urban Dictionary

The individual in a business setting most likely to screw you over. Urban Dictionary

"Partnered" is a relationship status prior to engagement. When a person stops dating others (unless the person is polyamorous, which won't be gone into right now) and couples up with another person, a 'serious' relationship, each individual is considered partnered. Urban Dictionary

Urban altern-a-chicks and Metrosexuals don't have boyfriends, girlfriends, significant others, husbands, wives, fuck-buddies, etc. They have 'Partners'. A 'Partner' is very similar to a boyfriend or girlfriend, but is not a boyfriend or girl friend. If you call someone's 'Partner' a 'boyfriend' or a 'girlfriend', you will be corrected ("no, Callum is my 'Partner'"). 'Partners' have many of the same characteristics as boyfriends and girlfriends (functioning genitalia, heartbeats, annoying habits, feelings, etc...), but also have very distinctive behaviors and physical features: * 'Partners' live in "spaces", not apartments, homes, houses, pads or places. * 'Partners' sleep and fuck on futons or dirty mattresses on the floor, as opposed to beds. * 'Partners' generally subsist on 'ethical' or sustainable diets of Organic vegetables, Free-range meat and fair-trade coffee. * Often, a male 'partner' can be recognized by the presence of frappichino glasses, fashionably-unfashionable clothes, 'old-man' or 'quasi-military' hats, a deliberately messy hair-do odd facial hair patterns and a generally wimpish and elitist attitude. It is not uncommon for a male 'partner' to undergo sympathy cramps while the female partner is menstruating. * Female 'partners' are often distinguished by the accumulation of hair on the legs and arm-pits, but not necessarily the genital area. The female partner usually sports boyish clothes, Retro tees, or DIY skirts and blouses made of discarded towels , curtains or tablecloths. leg warmers would not be out of place here. Hair styles can vary from one similar to the male partner's deliberate mess, to a Zelda hair-cut. Female 'Partners' usually can be found in bars, at a table with 3 or 4 guys, in addition to her 'partner' who is quietly sipping his micro-brewed bitter-nut-dark-ale while stewing in jealousy. * A 'partner' is generally chosen on their potential to advance one's own status in a given scene. A leader of an activist group, a drummer of a post-rock band or the focus of a peer group is generally considered prime 'partner' material. Having a good 'partner' increases your ability to name-drop, facilitates ladder climbing and makes for a fashionable conversation piece. * 'Partners' frown on dating, as it is an outdated tradition of monogamous courtship. Instead they go on "meetings" at such venues as cheap ethnic restaurants, diners, cultural festivals, downtown parks, wooded areas and their or their 'partners' "space". * 'Partners' can be of great importance one day, and a minor annoyance to be ignored, avoided or kicked to the curb the next. This is because people in 'partnerships' generally strive to avoid any commitment or responsibility in a life devoted to the pursue of their own pleasure, and likely have other 'partners' lined up, if they're not fucking them already. * Although the term 'partner' suggests equality in a relationship, this is not the case. The power in the relationship rests with the 'partner' that cares less. As one 'Partner' loses interest, they become harder and harder to arrange a 'meeting' with. leaving the other 'partner(s)' confused as to the state of the decaying 'partnership' leading to desperation and insecurity. * The term 'partner' is not exclusive to those in monogamous relationships. Often, those choosing open relationships refer to each other as 'partners'. hence, it is possible for someone to have multiple 'partners' and 'partnerships'. This helps facilitate the spread of STDs amongst bohemian, activist and alternative circles. * The term 'Partner' is not exclusive to straight relationships. In fact, the term has been borrowed (co-opted or colonized... if you will) from the L.G.B.T. community which used the term to denote a participant in a same-sex relationship. Gay people resent straight people who have bastardized and colonized the term, just as black people resent white people who have co-opted hip-hop music. Urban Dictionary

A term for a gays lover. Urban Dictionary

A sexual friend, as in Boyfriend and girlfriend. Can be homosexual. Urban Dictionary

It doesn't mean your friend it's like a mad way to adress someone... Urban Dictionary

No matter who you meet in life, or have love for, hopefully your partner is your husband or wife, and you don't ever need any other partner. Urban Dictionary

People who own a law firm together. Urban Dictionary

The name you use when referring to the other half of your two people spy duo. One generally uses this term to keep the identity of the other person private because if he told you her real name he'd have to shoot you. Partners usually partake in dangerous missions for spy organizations you have never heard of. Examples include but are not limited to: wearing fancy attire and attending boujee parties for the sake of "intelligence", sexily jumping out of fast-moving vehicles, passionately arguing and then passionately making out, surprising locals buy speaking every foreign language, and ordering cocktails you've never heard of with liquor so expensive you'll never taste it. Urban Dictionary

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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word partners:
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Words that rhyme with partners:
kindergartners, copartners.

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