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Up The Bracket Alley 

The alley in Bethnal Green, London, where The Libertines' song 'Up The Bracket' was filmed that has become a place of pilgrimage for Libertines fans. It is graffittied with many Libertines lyrics and is close to Carl Barât and Pete Doherty's former flat on Teesdale Street.
Up The Bracket Alley, the origin of one of the greatest songs ever, is at Hare Row, Tower Hamlets, E2.
Up The Bracket Alley by rcguz August 1, 2008
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bricked up 

to have a boner
"bro you can see that guys boner!"
"damn hes bricked up"
bricked up by yurtness June 9, 2022
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two backed beast 

N. Old literary term for sexual copulation. The most famous being a quote from William Shakespeare's Othello where Iago informs the King that his daughter has been having sex with a black man. Though modern high school students generally assume that making the two back beast is a reference to doing it doggy style the literal meaning in the 15th century was sex face to face or in the missionary position.
"If you tell Momma I was spying on you, then I'll tell her you and Jorge were making the two backed beast."

William Shakespeare. Othello. (1605): Iago: ' I am one, sir, that comes to tell you, your daughter and the Moor are now making-the-beast-with-two-backs .'
two backed beast by keifermail August 22, 2008

y in brackets

a way of describing something to be good, or to describe your mood. deriving from the MSN emoticon that is a thumbs up, the code being (Y), or y in brackets.
can also be used randomly by shouting it out and putting your thumbs up cheerfully.
often used by computer nerds or just general cool kids.
i got an A* in my test, y in brackets!

person 1 : how was the show?
person 2 : y in brackets, i loved it!
To render your computer useless, as useless as a brick.

Usually the result of tampering with the insides and doing irreversible damage. Bricking your hardware leaves you with a new paperweight. Can be the end effect of a faulty flash or firmware update, a modification (mod) gone bad or being struck by lighting, to name a few.
He managed to get his new iMac bricked while trying to boot WinXP on it.

I tried to change graphics cards while my computer was running but I only managed to get my machine bricked.
bricked by remmelt January 25, 2006

bracketception 

The use of the bracket symbol within brackets
P1: Brackets, brackets everywhere.
P2: Bracketception brooo!
Braced is a term used to describe the act of getting ready and put together. You can also use it to describe someone looking "braced."
"Alright let me just get showered and braced and then I'll come over"

"Damn that guy over there is looking hella braced"
Braced by Lolhihoe February 21, 2015