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brass hats 

A term used to describe superiors, especially in a military context. Named as such because of the brass pins worn on military officers as decorations and/or medals in the past. Famously used by JFK during the Cuban Missle Crisis.

See also "the brass", a term also used to describe superiors.
These brass hats have one great advantage in their favor. If we listen to them, and do what they want us to do, none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong. - John F. Kennedy
brass hats by D-MoneyUSA123 January 19, 2022
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Brass Buffalo 

Similar to a brass monkey - the brass buffalo is a beverage made by taking several sips of beer and then mixing in several squirts of Heinz yellow mustard into it. It originated on nut farms in the countryside of the pacific northwest and is considered a delicacy.
Bro, pass the Heinz lets make some brass buffalos
Brass Buffalo by NiceFeet95 March 19, 2023

brass knucks

See brass knuckles
A set of metal finger rings or guards attached to a transverse piece and worn over the front of the doubled fist for use as a weapon.
That boi stole mah hoe so I'ma fuck him up wit' ma brass knucks.
brass knucks by Stevey Starling January 5, 2006

Brass Knights 

A group of people, a very large group, who are really cool and do lots of stuff together, their leader is a Gilby, that's cool, but not.
They may be considered a "guild", don't say "clan" because that triggers everyone on the earth, they resign on a world known as deepworld and they don't interact with any other guild in the world simply because THERE IS NO OTHER GUILD THAT IS BIG ENOUGH TO BE SEEN BY THEM.
"Yo mama's so big, the Brass Knights could see her"
"Oh god, that was the best sentence ever.."

brass up 

A British slang term, meaning to shoot someone multiple times.
We went to war in Afghanistan to brass up Johnny Raghead.
brass up by _SterlingArcher_ February 6, 2018

brass boy 

The sort of insult and illiterate with an IQ of, perhaps, 40 may give to someone who plays a 'brass' instrument (even if it is really a saxophone...). This is, of course, because they cannot begin to comprehend the level of skill it takes to play an instrument so they will come out with this crappy insult in hopes of making the recipient of the insult 'feel bad'. It's used when they know they have lost in all meanings of the word.
"HEAY LUK GUYZ ETS DE BRASS BOY!!1!1!" - your neighborhood illiterate, John.
brass boy by Rework January 17, 2018