bro

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Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
6
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/bɹoʊ/
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/bɹoʊ/ · /bɹəʊ/ · [bɹɞʊ̟] · [bɹoː]

Definition of bro

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (slang)Brother (a male sibling).
    “My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.”
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noun

  1. (slang)Brother (a male sibling).
    “My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.”
  2. (slang)Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).
    “Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.”
    “Let’s not kid ourselves – there are plenty of men saying that Will has been emasculated by Jada, because hurr durr why would he hit a bro over a woman.”
    “Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos.”
  3. (slang)Brother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.
    “Near-synonym: man”
    “don't tase me, bro”
    “Hey bro, sorry to bother you but I think I accidentally backed up into your car — can I make it up to you?”
    “Bro said he finna go off today!”
  4. (slang)A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
  5. (derogatory, in-compounds, slang, usually)Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
    “Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run.”
    “One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race.”
    “He'd seen that false equivalency coming from AI bros time and time again, but hearing it from an AI itself was especially irritating.”

name

  1. A surname.

adj

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable)Abbreviation of brown (eye or hair color).

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Etymology

PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *brōþēr Proto-West Germanic *brōþer Old English brōþor Middle English brother English brotherclip. English bro Spelling pronunciation and clipping of brother. (Contrast bruh, which is a clipping of the pronunciation of brother rather than the spelling.) Compare Swedish bror.

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