A pair of metallic spheres, each approximately 2 inches in diameter, connected by a string or chain and meant to represent the male testes. Used as a motivational tool by Alec Baldwin in the 1992 film version of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross.
It takes brass balls to sell real estate.
by BMG January 16, 2003
Deidre Brass is the sexiest girl alive!! She has beautiful big brown eyes and the body of a model. She has long thick brown hair and lips like Angelina Jolie. She has the fashion sense of a great fashion designer. Her clothes fit her body perfectly. She could wear anything and still look damn fine. I'd tap her ass anyday. Also see hottie
by Tricia fucking Wright March 07, 2005
by freaking HUGE dave May 18, 2007
A female that hops from table to table in a club that doesn't ever pay for drinks or entry and tends to go over for a vodka and coke.
Also known as a Vodka Vulture, Table Whore, SideChick
Commonly found in city centres in the small hours of the morning.
Also see dickie brass
Also known as a Vodka Vulture, Table Whore, SideChick
Commonly found in city centres in the small hours of the morning.
Also see dickie brass
Guy: we getting a table tonight at the club?
Guy two: as long as we dont end up with bare table brasses with us!
Guy two: as long as we dont end up with bare table brasses with us!
by Brass Exposure September 26, 2013
police slang for street justice in the form of a guilty person getting shot. (refers to the brass casings)
Did you hear? Benny managed to get a good lawyer and walked on all charges; & you just KNOW he was the one who stabbed the guy, even though the jury gave him a not guilty verdict!
Yeah, but then the guy's family shot him in the head the day after he was let out of jail -- that was the REAL verdict, man, a brass verdict!
Fuck him, piece of shit, anyway!
Yeah, but then the guy's family shot him in the head the day after he was let out of jail -- that was the REAL verdict, man, a brass verdict!
Fuck him, piece of shit, anyway!
by cyberpope67,BC,Canada November 11, 2010
While the exact origin of the term 'brass monkey' is unkown, it's 200-plus year usage history indicates its original meaning is related to the Kelvin Spheres that sit on either side of a ship's binnacle. The balls, which are iron, help offset magnetic shifts so the compass inside the binnacle remains pointed toward magnetic north. The two balls are traditionally mounted on brass arms, which were called 'monkeys' by sailors in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The phrase 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' didn't rear its head into common usage until the 20th century. Original uses referred to 'freezing the tail of a brass monkey,' or 'melting the nose off a brass monkey,' and can be found in 19th century sailing texts like Herman Melville's "Omoo" ('...it was 'ot enough to melt the nose h'off a brass monkey....').
Again, while the exact meaning is unkown, the term has beeen definitively rejected by the Department of the Navy, the Oxford English Dictionary and other noted etymologists as describing a pyramid of cannonballs on a brass tray. Not only were they never used on board ship during the age of sail as they would have rolled everywhere with the rocking of the ship, but the balls and tray would expand and contract at nearly the same rate due to cold and heat, and therefore the stack would never have fallen apart due temperature change.
The phrase 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' didn't rear its head into common usage until the 20th century. Original uses referred to 'freezing the tail of a brass monkey,' or 'melting the nose off a brass monkey,' and can be found in 19th century sailing texts like Herman Melville's "Omoo" ('...it was 'ot enough to melt the nose h'off a brass monkey....').
Again, while the exact meaning is unkown, the term has beeen definitively rejected by the Department of the Navy, the Oxford English Dictionary and other noted etymologists as describing a pyramid of cannonballs on a brass tray. Not only were they never used on board ship during the age of sail as they would have rolled everywhere with the rocking of the ship, but the balls and tray would expand and contract at nearly the same rate due to cold and heat, and therefore the stack would never have fallen apart due temperature change.
by Sailor Clay May 18, 2009
by Joe April 13, 2004