goom·bah 
(gmbä, gm-)
(gmbä, gm-)n.
Slang
Slang
A companion or associate, especially an older friend who acts as a patron, protector, or adviser.
[From Neapolitan cumpà, friend (with initial c regularly voiced to g after vowels within a sentence), from earlier, godfather, from Medieval Latin compater; see COMPADRE.]
- collective bargaining
- collective farm
- collectively
- collective mark
- collective memory
- collectiveness
- collective noun
- collective unconscious
- collectivism
- collectivist
- collectivistic
- collectivistically
- collectivity
- collectivization
- collectivize
- collector
- collectorship
- colleen
- college
- College Board
- College of Cardinals
- College Station
- college try
- collegia
- collegial