brass up

English

Verb

brass up (third-person singular simple present brasses up, present participle brassing up, simple past and past participle brassed up)

1. (slang) To pay a debt or hand over money.
   • 1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:

     "What did he soak him? Five quid?"
     "Yes, sir."
     "And Gussie brassed up and was free?"

2. (military, slang, transitive) To shell.
   • 1982, The Listener, volume 108, page 3:

     The next time I met RSM Simpson was when we were together being 'brassed up' by enemy artillery and mortar […]

   • 1987, Stuart Rintoul, Ashes of Vietnam: Australian voices, page 126:

     I went back in and threw a hand-grenade under the bed and then I brassed up the house. They were dead, of course.