brospeak
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- "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."
- "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.""
- ""A'ight," he said, lapsing into the bro-speak he normally reserves for conversations with teammates. "That sounds like it could be tight.""
- "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."