a breeder. Why not? The breeders in-
vited us to their party.breezen. an easy task. Nothing to it. It
was a breeze. I went through it like a
breeze.
brew 1. n. coffee; occasionally, tea. I
could use a nice cup of brew. This is my
kind of brew, hot, black, and aromatic. 2.
n. beer; a can, bottle, or glass of beer.
Hey, give me a cold brew, will ya? This
is my favorite brew, and it’s at just the right
temperature.
brewedmod. alcohol intoxicated. Fred is
brewed every evening by 9:00. I think he
has a problem. He tries to get brewed
as soon as he can after work.
brew-ha[“bruha] n. brew; a beer. One
brew-ha over here, innkeeper! How
’bout some brew-ha, Mike?
brew-outn. a beer blast; a beer blow-out.
Were you at Tom’s brew-out? I was too
bombed to see who was there. Was that
Tom’s brew-out I was at?
brews brothersn. (male) beer-drinking
college students. (A play on The Blues
Brothers, a popular movie released in
1980.) The brews brothers were mak-
ing a lot of noise last night. Don’t those
guys do anything but drink? You guys
look like the devil and you smell like the
brews brothers.
brewski and brewsky[“bruski] n. beer; a
beer. Hey, how ’bout a brewski? I’ll
take a nice cold brewsky.
brewskyGo to brewski.
brewster[“brust#] 1. n a beer drinker; a
beer drunkard. Fred has become a com-
mitted brewster. He pounds one beer af-
ter another. A dedicated brewster can
put away a six-pack in half an hour. 2. n.
beer; a can of beer. I need another
brewster over here, and another one for my
buddy. Toss me a cold brewster, will you?
brick 1. n. a failed shot in basketball.
Chalk up another brick for Michael. It
looked close, but it was a brick. 2. n. any
failure. Charlie is responsible for an-
other brick in the accounting department.
This whole thing is a mess. Whose brick
is this anyway? 3. in. to fail. The whole
project bricked because we sat on the con-
tract too long. The company almost
bricked because of delays in signing con-
tracts.
brickhousen. a large-breasted woman. (A
confused or euphemistic reference to
built like a brick shithouse. Usually ob-
jectionable.) Clara’s a real brickhouse.
I don’t see how she stands up. Look at
the boosiasms on that brickhouse!
brig[brIg] n. jail. (From the term for a
naval prison or a shipboard jail.)
Throw this jerk in the brig. The brig in
that one-horse town is a mess.
bright and breezymod. cheery and alert.
You look all bright and breezy. What
happened? Bright and breezy people on
a day like this make me sick.
bright-eyed and bushy-tailedmod. alert
and ready to do something; as alert and
as active as a squirrel. You look all
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed this morn-
ing. The child—bright-eyed and bushy-
tailed—woke everyone up at dawn. Te l l
that bright-eyed and bushy-tailed brat to
shut up!
brightsn.the eyes. (From bright eyes.)
Shine your brights on this thing for a
minute, will you. Don’t you close your
brights and look bored when I’m talking to
you!
brimn. a hat. Man, that is one fine brim
you got. New silks call for a new brim.
bring-down 1. n. something that depresses
someone. The news was a terrible
bring-down. Just to see your face was a
bring-down. 2. n. something that brings
someone back to reality. The bill for the
week’s stay was a real bring-down. I
have had one bring-down after another to-
day.
bring home the bacontv. to earn a liveli-
hood; to earn money to buy food.
When I have to bring home the bacon, I
hope I have an interesting job. I have to
bring home the bacon for six kids.
bring someone down 1. tv. to terminate
one’s own or someone else’s drug expe-breeze