chum

A week before Christmas in 1956 she was invited to visit an old school chum’s family farm in Kenya.

The waters have been chummed and the sharks are beginning to circle.

In a surreal moment, the two men were laughing and chumming it up like old friends.

Matlin and Stern, who is also a Deaf actor, have been friends for decades, and their interviews are mostly conducted sitting together on a couch, the conversations exuding the cozy intimacy of old chums chatting.

Chum - To join someone as a companion, as in "I'll chum you along".