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The word "kiddo" is correct and usable in written English
It is a term of endearment often used to address a child or a close friend in a familiar way. For example, you might say, "Don't worry, kiddo, I'll take care of it."
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kiddo
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A close friend; especially used as a form of address.
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He seems relieved by this: 'Don't worry, kiddo, we will get you into physiotherapy to try to keep you moving as normally as possible for as long as we can.' "As I get up to leave, he chirps in with one final question, 'are you planning on having children?' I shake my head in the negative.
Tough luck, kiddo, welcome to the lives of anyone under 23.
'Well, kiddo,' he starts, 'I wish I had better news for you.' I brace myself for the worst that I can imagine: that he will have found nothing that he can measure; that I will be told to stop playing sports; that I will be told that it is all in my head; that it will be blamed on my gender; that I won't be classifiable.
When Vicky wanted to be a bookworm and wear those big cloddy boots and memorize everything about the French Revolution and always be tidying up the house and scrubbing the toilets and whatnot, she'd been like, Go for it, kiddo, I accept you.
"Every chance I get, kiddo!" he shot back, with a wink.
"I'm going to give you a piece of advice you'll thank me for the rest of your life, kiddo," he said.
It was the first time anybody had ever called me "kiddo" — a word I had until then only associated with tough-guy movies.
"George called," he'd say, "and I managed to get him up to two hundred and fifty thousand pounds for the U.K., kiddo, so you can go to — oh, at least a million five".
Given that "High School Musical 4" is already in the works, the answer, kiddo, is yes.
Over the years, he was to give me much more advice from his personal experience, ranging from "Always try to have fun, kiddo" to "Be a mensch when you tip".
What's cookin', kiddo?" or "What have we got going, kid?" — followed by a bewildering series of high-speed sales pitches.
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