bedfellow

/ˈbɛdˌfɛloʊ/
noun
  1. A person who shares a bed with another.
    • She preferred a quiet bedfellow who didn't snore.
    • My brother was my bedfellow when we visited our grandparents.
    • The inn only had one bed, so the two travelers became bedfellows for the night.
  2. A person or group that is associated with another, often in an unlikely or temporary alliance.
    • In business, necessity often creates odd bedfellows.
    • The environmental group and the oil company were unlikely bedfellows in the recycling project.
    • Politics makes strange bedfellows, as the two rivals joined forces on the new law.
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