brospeak

English

Alternative forms

• bro speak, bro-speak

Etymology

From bro +‎ -speak.

Noun

brospeak (uncountable)

1. (rare) Speech characteristic of bros and bro culture.
   • 2016 March 3, Nathan Heller, “An Epic Takedown of Élite Brospeak”, in The New Yorker‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-08:

     In this respect, the term is not alone. "Epic" belongs to what might be called élite brospeak, a collection of idioms that together reach for grandiose adventurism from a position of the comfortably banal. Élite brospeak holds that people working ably in offices on William Street or Bryant Street are "killing it" or "crushing it."

   • 2016 August 6, Maureen Sherry, “The Brutal Truth About Being a Woman on Wall Street”, in Fortune‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 December 2022:

     Almost all employees attend some version of discrimination and harassment-awareness training, so how is it that the bro speak still exists at all? With only 10% of female professionals on the trading floor and only 16% of senior executives being female (at all banks plus financial instruments), it's unlikely that the few women at that level even want to discuss it.

   • 2016 September 22, Kate Mooney, “'Goat' shows frat culture at its most toxic”, in Metro New York, page 23, column 1:

     The script — heavy on the brospeak — was co-written by David Gordon Green, who has made his fair share of dramas but may be better known for Stoner buddy comedies like "Pineapple Express" and HBO's "Eastbound and Down."

   • 2017, Jen Lancaster, The Gatekeepers, Don Mills, O.N.: Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 55:

     "A'ight," he said, lapsing into the bro-speak he normally reserves for conversations with teammates. "That sounds like it could be tight."

   • 2019 October 4, Scott F[abius] Kiesling, The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN:

     After defining stance and reviewing ways in which it has been used in studies of language and sexuality, the chapter analyzes representations of two sexual identity registers: a "gay voice" homosexual identity and a "brospeak" heterosexual identity.