Friendlies

[Sarah]

Military slang short for friendly troops.

[Kai]

Your friends and the friends of your friends, which, though you may not specifically know them or hang out with them, are okay with you by [association].

If I am friends with A, and A is friends with B, then B is one of my friendlies.

[Renato]

[Friendlies] are those person(s) showing kindness to someone, as a friend would behave, in their presence, although s/he is [unfriendly] or even hostile in his true nature, when out of [the targets] sight. In the broadest sense, a fraud. S/he is intentional deceptive. Made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is a phony.