male bonding

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   the formation of a close personal relationship between men

   “the rituals known as male bonding do not necessarily involve drinking beer together”

   Broaderbonding

Questions about male bonding

What does male bonding mean?

male bonding means "the formation of a close personal relationship between men".

Is male bonding a common word?

male bonding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.