brospeak
brospeak noun: speech that is characteristic of bros and bro culture.
Noun
brospeak (uncountable)
- Speech that is characteristic of bros and bro culture.
- In this respect, the term is not alone. "Epic" belongs to what might be called élite brospeak, a collection of idioms that together reach for grandiose adventurism from a position of the comfortably banal. Élite brospeak holds that people working ably in offices on William Street or Bryant Street...2016 March 3, Nathan Heller, “An Epic Takedown of Élite Brospeak”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022
- Almost all employees attend some version of discrimination and harassment-awareness training, so how is it that the bro speak still exists at all? With only 10% of female professionals on the trading floor and only 16% of senior executives being female (at all banks plus financial instruments)...2016 August 6, Maureen Sherry, “The Brutal Truth About Being a Woman on Wall Street”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2022
- Synonyms:
- bro talk
Synonyms of brospeak
Forms of brospeak
| alternative form | bro speak |
|---|---|
| alternative form | bro-speak |
Origin of brospeak
From bro + -speak.
Questions about brospeak
- What does brospeak mean?
- Brospeak means speech that is characteristic of bros and bro culture.
- What part of speech is brospeak?
- Brospeak is a noun.
Words near brospeak in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: brospeak (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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