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The correct spelling is brass.
How to pronounce brass
/bɹɑːs/
nounIPA: /bɹɑːs/
Say it like: Bra-ss
The correct spelling is brass. A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. For example: "The brass are not going to like this."
Usage Examples
“The brass are not going to like this.”
“You've got a lot of brass telling me to do that!”
Meanings
noun
- 1.A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.
- 2.A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments
- 3.Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired.
- 4.The colour of brass.
- 5.(used as a singular or plural noun, metonym) High-ranking officers.
verb
- 1.To coat with brass.
adjective
- 1.Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.
- 2.Of the colour of brass.
- 3.Impertinent, bold: brazen.
- 4.Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.
- 5.Of inferior composition.
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