bro
nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈbɹəʊ̯//
- United Kingdom/[ˈbɹʷəʊ̯]/
- United Kingdom//ˈbɹɵʊ̯//
- United Kingdom/[ˈbɹʷɵʊ̯]/
- Australia//ˈbɹəʉ̯//
Brother (a male sibling).
noun
- 1
slangBrother (a male sibling).
My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.
- 2
slangBrother (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
slangBrother, 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
slangA frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
- 5
slangSomeone, 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.
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.
Forms
- plural
- bros