Idiom
story, bud
Meaning
Used as a greeting; How are you?, What's up?
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Hey, story, bud, what are you doing today?”
“I saw my neighbor in the hallway and asked, story, bud, how is your week going?”
“He leaned against the counter with a casual grin and greeted me by saying, story, bud, tell me what has been happening lately.”
Examples
simple
“Hey, story, bud, what are you doing today?”
contextual
“I saw my neighbor in the hallway and asked, story, bud, how is your week going?”
complex
“He leaned against the counter with a casual grin and greeted me by saying, story, bud, tell me what has been happening lately.”
Origin
A variation of the Irish colloquialism *what’s the story, bud*, functioning as a standard greeting. The phrasing preserves the informal address *bud* as a shortening of *buddy*.
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