mates' rates

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Noun

mates' rates

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, chiefly in the plural) Discounted prices offered to friends.
- 2014, Jonathan Harvey, The Girl Who Just Appeared, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 94:
  I looked at him quizzically. ‘It's Rose's place. She says pop in anytime for a hairdo. Mates' rates.’ I must have looked wary because he added, ‘She's good.’ I nodded politely.

Usage notes

The singular mate's rate is rarer.

Translations

Translations

Finnish: asevelihinta (fi)
French: prix d’ami m
German: Freundschaftspreis m
Polish: ceny dla przyjaciół f pl

Anagrams

mare's teats, masterates, metatarses

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