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brev

brev is the alternative form of bruv.

Meaning of bruv

Noun

bruv (plural bruvs)

  1. (Australia, Canada, Cockney, Multicultural-London-English, UK, slang) Brother, mate, friend.
    • The lads in the Nags 'Ead were just talking about your bit of managerial bovver and I said to Rodney, 'Bruv, this could be my big chance.'1992, Today

Forms of brev

pluralbrevs

Questions about brev

What is brev the alternative form of?
Brev is the alternative form of bruv.

Words near brev in the dictionary

  1. Breughelian
  2. Breunig
  3. Breunigs
  4. breunnerite
  5. breunnerites
  6. brev
  7. Brevard
  8. Brevard County
  9. breve
  10. breve rest
  11. breve rests

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brev (page history and authors); bruv (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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