Brahms

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English

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Etymology

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Shortened from the rhyming slang Brahms and Liszt for "pissed".

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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Brahms (comparative more Brahms, superlative most Brahms)

  1. (Cockney rhyming slang) Pissed, drunk.
    • 2010, Luke James, Stairway to Nowhere, page 39:
      Now if we can all avoid getting Brahms at lunchtime, we'll be fine. Actually that is proving less of a problem the more we gig. No one drinks, snorts or smokes anything (other than fags) before shows.

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German

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Proper noun

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Brahms m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Brahms' or (with an article) Brahms, feminine genitive Brahms, plural Brahms or Brahmsens)

  1. a surname, notably of Johannes Brahms, a 19th century German composer

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