brass up
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Verb
brass up (third-person singular simple present brasses up, present participle brassing up, simple past and past participle brassed up)
- (slang) To pay a debt or hand over money.
- 1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:
- "What did he soak him? Five quid?"
"Yes, sir."
"And Gussie brassed up and was free?"
- (military, slang, transitive) To shell.
- 1982, The Listener, volume 108, page 3:
- The next time I met RSM Simpson was when we were together being 'brassed up' by enemy artillery and mortar […]
- 1987, Stuart Rintoul, Ashes of Vietnam: Australian voices, page 126:
- I went back in and threw a hand-grenade under the bed and then I brassed up the house. They were dead, of course.
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