1. The partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
2. Informal term (Australian or British) for a friend of the same sex.
3. The officer below the master on a commercial ship; SYN. first mate.

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Paraguay tea (plant and beverage).
Dried leaves of the Brazilian holly Ilex paraguensis, an evergreen shrub that grows in Paraguay and Brazil. The roasted, powdered leaves are made into a tea.
South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate.
South American holly; leaves used in making a tealike drink; SYN. Paraguay tea, Ilex paraguariensis.

ETYM French mater to fatigue, enfeeble, humiliate, checkmate. Related to Mate checkmate.
To copulate, of animals.

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