bro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: bros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: brah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Brother (a male sibling).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.
gloss: Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
gloss: Brother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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!
gloss: A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
in-compounds
slang
usually
examples: 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.
Related words: broseph
brotha
bruv
Derived words: basic bro
Bernie bro
Brobot
brochacho
brocialism
brocialist
bro code
bro-country
bro culture
brodeo
bro down
brodown
broette
broey
brofessor
brofist
broflake
bro globes
brogrammer
brogressive
brohawk
brohemian
brohoof
brohug
bro-hug
broish
brojob
brolationship
broligarch
broligarchy
bromance
bromantic
bromantical
bromantically
bromeopathy
bromigo
broness
brony
bro out
broscience
broseph
brosephine
BroShep
broship
broski
brosky
brosmaid
brospeak
brostep
bro talk
brotastic
brotini
brotox
BroTP
brud
cool story bro
cro
cryptobro
debate bro
DOGE bro
dudebro
film bro
gym bro
ladybro
lax bro
lesbro
lezbro
lil bro
newbro
Orthobro
passport bro
portmanbro
stepbro
sugar bro
tech bro
trust me bro
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: fraĉjo
lang: Finnish
word: veikko
lang: Finnish
word: veikka
lang: Finnish
word: veikkonen
lang: Japanese
word: 兄ちゃん
roman: nīchan
lang: Japanese
word: 兄貴
roman: aniki
lang: Tamil
word: சகோ
roman: cakō