Irish or
Irish-American colloquialism for shoes, boots, or other footwear (noun); derived from "brogue," the lilting accent with which most people of Celtic/
Irish extraction speak, most commonly whilst intoxicated.
1. "
Get those brogans off the
table, you drunken black Irish bastard, or else somebody in this family's going to die."
2. Mr. Conroy: "Charlie! What happened to your brogans???? You
better not have lost them because I put in tons and tons of overtime painting houses just to buy them, you ungrateful little son of a bitch."
Little Charlie:
Tommy Adams and his cronies yanked them off me and threw them in the Allegheny when I was walking home from school today."
Mr. Conroy: "Goddamn it!!!" {chugs down the rest of his Iron City, slaps Little Charlie in the back of the head, gets up from kitchen
table, and grabs baseball bat}. "I guess I'm going to have pay a social call to his old man, then..."