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brass-necks

brass-necks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brass-neck.

Meaning of brass-neck

Verb

brass-neck (third-person singular simple present brass-necks, present participle brass-necking, simple past and past participle brass-necked)

  1. (Ireland, UK, idiomatic) To behave boldly or shamelessly.

Questions about brass-necks

What is brass-necks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Brass-necks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of brass-neck.

Words near brass-necks in the dictionary

  1. brass-collar Democrats
  2. brass-knuckled
  3. brass-neck
  4. brass-necked
  5. brass-necking
  6. brass-necks
  7. brassage
  8. brassages
  9. Brassai
  10. brassard
  11. brassards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brass-necks (page history and authors); brass-neck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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