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brospeak en · NOUN

Etymology

From bro + -speak.

Meanings

1. (rare, uncountable) Speech that is characteristic of bros and bro culture.
   • "A'ight," he said, lapsing into the bro-speak he normally reserves for conversations with teammates. "That sounds like it could be tight." 2017, Jen Lancaster, The Gatekeepers, Don Mills, O.N.: Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 55:
   • 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. 2019 October 4, Scott F[abius] Kiesling, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN:
   • 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." 2016 September 22, Kate Mooney, “'Goat' shows frat culture at its most toxic”, in Metro New York, page 23, column 1:
   • 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." 2016 March 3, Nathan Heller, “An Epic Takedown of Élite Brospeak”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022:
   • Almost all employees attend some version of discrimination and harassment-awareness training, so how is it that the bro speak still exists at all? With only 10% of female professionals on the trading floor and only 16% of senior executives being female (at all banks plus financial instruments), it's unlikely that the few women at that level even want to discuss it. 2016 August 6, Maureen Sherry, “The Brutal Truth About Being a Woman on Wall Street”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2022:

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Synonyms

bro talk