brassnoun詞源 1/bɹɑːs/

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  A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.

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  A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.

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  entertainmentlifestylemusicA class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments.

  • A few measures later, the brass comes in strong!
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  Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.

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  The color of brass (etymology 1, noun sense 1).

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  governmentmilitarypoliticsHigh-ranking officers: the brass hats.

  • The brass are not going to like this.
  • The brass is not going to like this.
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  informalA brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.

  • You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!
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  datedslangMoney.

brassadj詞源 1/bɹɑːs/

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  Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.

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  Of the color of brass.

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  informalImpertinent, bold: brazen.

  • At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough.
  • [...] he continued in the same insulting strain. "If you were not quite brass, you would know it is not proper to be making promises you dare not tell of."
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  slangBad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.

  • Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.
  • I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]
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  Of inferior composition.

  • As Honest Plush Brannon then, Mr. Beery is one of San Francisco's fancier con men and hence more brass than plush

brassverb詞源 1/bɹɑːs/

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  To coat with brass.

brassnoun詞源 2/bɹɑːs/

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  slangA prostitute.

  • Health service glasses, gigolos and brasses, round or skinny bottoms
  • Richard didn't want the man on the corner to go up and fuck one of the brasses.

brassadj詞源 2/bɹɑːs/

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  slangBrass monkey; cold.

brassnoun詞源 3/bɹɑːs/

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  obsoletehistoricalSynonym of brace, a traditional unit of measure equivalent to a fathom (6 feet) or about 1.6 m, especially as the Spanish braza and Portuguese braça, also French brasse.