bedfellow
/ˈbɛdˌfɛloʊ/
noun
- 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.
- 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.