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brass

UK /bɹɑːs/US /bɹæs/

noun 12
adjective 6
verb 1
forms 5
phrases 14

noun12

a metal of a gold color in which copper is joined with a second metal, hard and easy to shape
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A 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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High-ranking officers: the brass hats.
- The brass are not going to like this.
- The brass is not going to like this.
A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten: a monumental brass.
Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass.
Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.
The color of brass.
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(informal) A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence.
- You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!
(slang, old-fashioned) Money.
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(slang) A prostitute.
- Health service glasses, gigolos and brasses, round or skinny bottoms — 1979
Inferior composition.
(no longer used, historical) Synonym 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.

adjective6

Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
Of the color of brass.
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(informal) Impertinent, 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. — 1869
(slang) Brass monkey; cold.
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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 — 1939
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(slang) Bad, 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. — 1888

verb1

To coat with brass.

forms

brassed · brassing · brasses · more brass · most brass

Phrases with brass

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