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Brass is a metal alloy of copper and zinc. "Brass" is also military slang for officers , especially high-ranking ones with broad decision-making powers; it is also used to refer to senior management in companies and other organizations.
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
The Brass Monkey of Stanthorpe, Queensland, a place known for its "brass monkey weather", complete with a set of balls "Cold enough to freeze the balls off (or on) a brass monkey" (also "brass monkey weather" [1]) is a colloquial expression used by some English speakers to describe extremely cold weather.
This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).
Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others. The local ...
Wasn't familiar with that one, and the slang dictionary doesn't have an entry with that meaning. But OED does, and has an interesting derivation chain starting from tail (posterior) -> a piece of tail (approx. prostitute) -> tail -> brass nail ( rhyming slang ) -> brass .
In honor of Black Twitter's contribution, Stacker compiled a list of 20 slang words it brought to popularity, using the AAVE Glossary, Urban Dictionary, Know Your Meme, and other internet ...
Urban Dictionary adds that sigma “is what all 10 year olds think they are.” As reported by British GQ , the word “sigma” was born from the misogynistic “manosphere.” What does ‘sigma ...