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brass up en · VERB
Meanings
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(slang) To pay a debt or hand over money.
"What did he soak him? Five quid?"
"Yes, sir."
"And Gussie brassed up and was free?"
1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:
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(slang, transitive) To shell.
I went back in and threw a hand-grenade under the bed and then I brassed up the house. They were dead, of course.
1987, Stuart Rintoul, Ashes of Vietnam: Australian voices, page 126:The next time I met RSM Simpson was when we were together being 'brassed up' by enemy artillery and mortar […]
1982, The Listener, volume 108, page 3:
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