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bro hug

bro hug is the alternative form of bro-hug.

Meaning of bro-hug

Noun

bro-hug (plural bro-hugs)

  1. (US, slang) A hug shared between male colleagues or friends, especially a quick, physically reserved one.
    • It wasn't even one of the one-armed bro-hugs that we usually do, it was a full-on hug with my arms wrapped all the way around his pudgy body.2012, John G. Hartness, Back in Black, Bell Bridge Books, →ISBN

Forms of bro hug

pluralbro hugs

Questions about bro hug

What is bro hug the alternative form of?
Bro hug is the alternative form of bro-hug.

Words near bro hug in the dictionary

  1. bro codes
  2. bro country
  3. bro culture
  4. bro down
  5. bro globes
  6. bro hug
  7. bro hugs
  8. Bro Machno
  9. bro out
  10. bro speak
  11. bro talk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bro hug (page history and authors); bro-hug (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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