Usually means: Friendship through written correspondence regularly.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. pen pal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pen pal: Merriam-Webster
  3. pen pal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pen pal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pen pal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pen pal: Vocabulary.com
  7. pen-pal: Wordnik
  8. pen pal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pen pal: Wiktionary
  10. pen pal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pen pal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pen pal: Dictionary.com
  13. Pen pal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. pen pal: Rhymezone
  15. pen pal: FreeDictionary.org
  16. pen pal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. pen pal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pen pal: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pen Pal: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pen_pals as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pen pal)

noun:  A friend with whom one communicates using letters, usually over a long distance.
verb:  (informal, transitive, intransitive) To correspond with a pen pal.

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