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The halter that elevates and holds in place human mammary glands, named for the inventor Phillipelde Brassiere.

Sometime in the mid twentieth century somebody started calling them bras, maybe because they could spell brassiere. Hardly any store advertises or customers ask for brassieres today. It's simply bra.
Dagmar had a hard time finding a store that sold 44DDD bras.
brassiere by Richard Black March 30, 2005

brassiere masochism 

A common female experience since many of us spend our days with our tits cruelly funneled into odd shapes and configurations.
My mom passed her brassiere masochism down to all of us who couldn’t wait to have perfect, perky ta-tas just like her’s.

ain't brassin' that noise

A phrase meaning a refusal to accept a situation or proposal.
"So she said she wanted an open relationship and I'm like 'I ain't brassin' that noise.'"
Broke, penniless, without means, on the bones of yer arse.
Comes from the cockney rhyming slang 'boracic lint' (a type of medical dressing): Boracic lint = skint.
Boracic is pronounced 'brassic'.
Fack me, I'm brassic this week cos I've eaten too many rubys.
brassic by FatJohn February 18, 2005

brassin' 

Brassin'
1. Laughing and/or chuckling (like a crazy person)
2. Fooling (Like joshing, joking, etc.)

From Gangster's Paradise by Coolio: "Cuz I been brassin' and laughing so long, that even my momma thinks that my mind is gone"
::Examples::

1. Ian has been brassin' and laughin' so long that even Bennie thinks that his mind is gone.

2. Ian said he wouldn't tryout for football, and Bennie was mad, until Ian informed Bennie that he was only brassin' him.
brassin' by Ian Bryant September 7, 2008
peniless, broke, skint, lacking in funds. British slang term.
Can I tick an eighth off you until next week, I'm brassic.
brassic by Adski Kavitch October 30, 2003