From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmale/female bondingmale/female bondinginformal the activity of doing things with other people of the same sex, so that you feel good about being a man or a woman They’re in the bar again, doing some male bonding! → bonding
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male/female bonding• Do a little female bonding - go shopping or out for a big lunch with a friend.• First, the male - female bonding is weakened owing to the low frequency of male interactions with most of his female companions.• A whole series of male clubs sprang up which emphasised the elements of male bonding.• Anticipated here is that always unstable disjunction between identification and desire upon which male bonding depends. 