bro!とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Clipping of brother. Compare Danish bror, Norwegian Bokmål bror, Swedish bror.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /bɹoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bɹəʊ/
• (General Australian) IPA: [bɹɞʊ̟]
• (Canada) IPA: [bɹoː]
• 韻: -əʊ
• ハイフネーション: bro
• Homophone: Breaux

名詞

bro (plural bros)

1. (slang) Brother (a male sibling).

   My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.

2. (slang) Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).

   Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.

   • 2022 April 5, “A$AP Rocky: Will Smith 'emasculated' Chris Rock but 'it's more than just a GI Jane joke'”, in Cele|bitchy‎:

     Let’s not kid ourselves – there are plenty of men saying that Will has been emasculated by Jada, because hurr durr why would he hit a bro over a woman.

3. (slang) Brother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.

   Near-synonym: man

   don't tase me, bro

   Hey bro, sorry to bother you but I think I accidentally backed up into your car — can I make it up to you?

   Bro said he finna go off today!

4. (slang) A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
5. (slang, derogatory, usually in compounds) Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
   • 2021 May 25, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump, Penguin, →ISBN, page 152:

     Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run.

   • 2022 September 14, Brian Culp, Electric Cars For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 11:

     One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race.

   • 2024 May 23, ego_bot, There's Something Weird Going On: Ten Stories of Existentialist Science Fiction, ego_bot, →ISBN:

     He'd seen that false equivalency coming from AI bros time and time again, but hearing it from an AI itself was especially irritating.

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派生した語

参考

• bruv (an abbreviated form of bruvver)
• brotha
• broseph

アナグラム

• BOR, Bor, Bor., ORB, ROB, Rob, bor, orb, rob