Usually means: Friend only during good times.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word fair weather friend:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. fair-weather friend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. fair-weather friend, fair-weather friend: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fair-weather friend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. fair-weather friend, fair weather friend: Wiktionary
  5. fair-weather friend: Dictionary.com
  6. Fair-weather friend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. fair-weather friend: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. fair weather friend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fair-weather friend: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fair weather friend: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Fair weather friend)

noun:  Alternative form of fair-weather friend. [(idiomatic) One who is friendly, helpful, or available only when it is advantageous or convenient to be so.]

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