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brolic

brolic adjective: having large, well-developed muscles.

brolic: having large, well-developed muscles
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Adjective

brolic (comparative more brolic, superlative most brolic)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Having large, well-developed muscles.
    • Lonnie and Shotgun Pete had beef with Black Boy, a big brolic drug dealer from Thomasville Heights, the projects up the street from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, not far from Englewood.2005, Ca$h, Trust No Man: Loyalty To Those Who Are Loyal, unnumbered page
    • He was mad brolic. Since he been in prison, he didn't have nothing else to do but work out.2013, Allison van Diepen, Street Pharm, page 65
    Synonyms:
    ripped, swole

Synonyms of brolic

Forms of brolic

comparativemore brolic
superlativemost brolic

Origin of brolic

Reportedly coined in reference to the extremely muscular character Broly from the Dragon Ball anime franchise, with the suffix -ic. Broly is a transliteration of the Japanese ブロリー (Burorī), itself coined as a pun on the English broccoli, a theme used in the naming of members of the fictional Saiyan alien species (e.g. Vegeta, from vegetable).

Questions about brolic

What does brolic mean?
Brolic means having large, well-developed muscles.
What part of speech is brolic?
Brolic is an adjective.

Words near brolic in the dictionary

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  2. brolationship
  3. brolationships
  4. brolga
  5. brolgas
  6. brolic
  7. broligarch
  8. broligarchies
  9. broligarchs
  10. broligarchy
  11. Brolin

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