Brospeak

Quick meaning: Brospeak is a noun meaning (rare) Speech that is characteristic of bros and bro culture.

Meaning

(rare) Speech that is characteristic of bros and bro culture.

Example Sentences

"A'ight," he said, lapsing into the bro-speak he normally reserves for conversations with teammates. "That sounds like it could be tight."

The script — heavy on the brospeak — was co-written by David Gordon Green, who has made his fair share of dramas but may be better known for Stoner buddy comedies like "Pineapple Express" and HBO's "Eastbound and Down."

After defining stance and reviewing ways in which it has been used in studies of language and sexuality, the chapter analyzes representations of two sexual identity registers: a "gay voice" homosexual identity and a "brospeak" heterosexual identity.

In this respect, the term is not alone. "Epic" belongs to what might be called élite brospeak, a collection of idioms that together reach for grandiose adventurism from a position of the comfortably banal. Élite brospeak holds that people working ably in offices on William Street or Bryant Street are "killing it" or "crushing it."

Word Forms

• bro speak
• bro-speak

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