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(1) marijuana (2) to inform authority about an individuals transgression of a rule; i.e. to grass someone up, to grass on someone, "you better not grass me up".
Brass tacks is London Cockney rhyming slang for facts.
Old iron and brass is London Cockney rhyming slang for grass. Old iron and brass is British military rhyming slang for a pass.
Brass band is London Cockney rhyming slang for hand.
Noun. Impudence, cheek, nerve. Also brass-necked (adj). [Orig. Northern dialect]
Brads was th century British slang for money.
cold ‘This weather could freeze the balls off a brass monkey.’
A babbitt-lined blank of bronze that forms the bearing upon which the car rests. To brass a car is to replace one of those bearings
Adj. Of the weather or air temperature, very cold. E.g."Wear a hat and scarf, it's brass monkeys out there." See 'brass monkey weather'.
money. From the 16th century, and a popular expression the north of England, e.g., 'where there's muck there's brass' which incidentally alluded to certain trades involving scrap, mess or waste which offered high earnings. This was also a defensive or retaliatory remark aimed at those of middle, higher or profesional classes who might look down on certain 'working class' entrepreneurs or traders. The 'where there's much there's brass' expression helped maintain and spread the populairity iof the 'brass' money slang, rather than cause it. Brass originated as slang for money by association to the colour of gold coins, and the value of brass as a scrap metal.
Brass monkeys is slang for very cold weather.
Facts. Ere, you've got your brass wrong!
Noun. 1. Money. 2. Prostitute. Short for brass nail, rhyming slang for tail, which is itself slang for, amongst other things, a woman and prostitute.
Brass (shortened from brass nail) is slang for a prostitute. Brass is British slang for money.Brass is British slang for penniless.
Brass neck is British slang for intensely cheeky.
Noun. Very cold weather. From the phrase, 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. Cf. 'brassy' and 'brass monkeys'.
Adj. Very cold. From the phrase, 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'. Cf. 'brass monkey weather'
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To cover with grass or with turf.
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A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.
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Species of Serranus, the sea bass and rock bass. See Sea bass.
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of Bass
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A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.
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Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
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The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.
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Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
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The season of fresh grass; spring.
v. t.
To bring to the grass or ground; to land; as, to grass a fish.
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Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.
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Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
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To produce grass.
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Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
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