"brospeak" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From bro + -speak. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|bro|-speak}} bro + -speak Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} brospeak (uncountable)
  1. (rare) Speech characteristic of bros and bro culture. Tags: rare, uncountable Synonyms: bro speak, bro-speak
    Sense id: en-brospeak-en-noun-jahVMYNk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -speak

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          "ref": "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 2022-12-08",
          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "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 2022-12-29",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2016 September 22, Kate Mooney, “'Goat' shows frat culture at its most toxic”, in Metro New York, page 23, column 1",
          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "2017, Jen Lancaster, The Gatekeepers, Don Mills, O.N.: Harlequin Teen, page 55",
          "text": "\"A'ight,\" he said, lapsing into the bro-speak he normally reserves for conversations with teammates. \"That sounds like it could be tight.\"",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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