bro

¹

Sometimes bruh

[broh, bruh]

noun

plural

bros 

1. a brother.

2. a guy or fellow: used as a term of address.

3. a male friend or buddy.

4. a fellow Black male; soul brother.

5. a young, usually white male variously and often negatively characterized as being preppy, party-loving, egotistical, sexist, etc.

adjective

1. of or relating to bros.

   the bro culture of college athletics.

bro.

²

Or Bro.

abbreviation

plural

bros, Bros 

1. brother.

bro

¹

/ brəʊ /

noun

1. a family member

2. a close associate

bro

²

/ bruː /

noun

1. informal,  a friend, often used in direct address

bro.

³

/ brəʊ /

abbreviation

1. brother

Other Word Forms

• broish adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bro¹

First recorded in 1830–40; reduced form of brother

Word History and Origins

Origin of bro¹

C20: from Afrikaans broer brother

Example Sentences

Bottum, the co-founder of the band Faith No More, offers up an elegy to a lost time and place: pre-tech bro San Francisco in the 1980s, when cultural ferment was in the air.

From Los Angeles Times

A wife guy, maybe—or a feminist bro.

From Slate

Only Brosnan, with his undimmed movie star features and bearing, seems an odd choice for his part — “I thought: ‘This is Ray Winstone, bro,’” he has said of his casting as the rough-edged, pugnacious Ron.

From Los Angeles Times

"I thought: 'this is Ray Winstone, bro'".

From BBC

I don’t really knock out until my body’s just like, “alright f— this, bro, I’m done.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• buddy 
• comrade 
• crony 
• playmate