subs. (chiefly American).—A partner; a CHUM (q.v).
1872. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), Roughing It, ii. He was the bulliest man in the mountains, PARD.
1882. J. D. MCCABE, New York by Sunlight and Gaslight, xxiii. 398. Let’s have a shake-down for me and my PARD, for the night?
1889. Modern Society, 19 Oct., 1296. We got such a strain, me and my PARD, starting the car, that we ought to have been entitled to a lay-off for a week.
