brass
[noun]
Synonyms: money, blunt, bread, cabbage, chip, dinero, do-re-mi, gelt, jack, long green, effrontery, brashness, cheek, chutzpah, confidence, crust, face, gall, nerve, presumption

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brass /brɑːs $ bræs/ noun
[Language: Old English; Origin: bræs]

1. METAL [uncountable] a very hard bright yellow metal that is a mixture of copper and zinc:
an old brass bedstead

2. MUSIC
a) [uncountable] musical instruments that are made of metal, such as the trumpet and the trombone:
brass instruments ⇒ percussion, stringed instrument, wind instrument, woodwind
b) the brass (section) the people in an orchestra or band who play musical instruments that are made of metal

3. DECORATIONS [countable usually plural] an object made of brass, usually with a design cut into it, or several brass objects

4. get down to brass tacks informal to start talking about the most important facts or details of something

5. PEOPLE WITH TOP JOBS the brass American English informal people who hold the most important positions Synonym : top brass British English

6. it’s brass monkeys/brass monkey weather British English spoken informal used to say that it is very cold

7. MONEY [uncountable] British English old-fashioned informal money
⇒ as bold as brass at bold(2)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

brass
noun
I. metal
ADJ. gleaming, glittering, polished, shiny | solid
VERB + BRASS be made from/in/(out) of candlesticks made of solid brass
PREP. in ~ The door knocker was a female figure in brass.

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brass
II. musical instruments made of brass
BRASS + NOUN band | instrument | section the brass section of the orchestra
 ⇒ Special page at MUSIC

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brass
brɑ:s
See: double in brass , get down to brass tacks

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