bro

Noun

1. Brother (a male sibling).
   • My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.
2. Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).
   • Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.
   • Let’s not kid ourselves – there are plenty of men saying that Will has been emasculated by Jada, because hurr durr why would he hit a bro over a woman. - 2022 May 4, “A$AP Rocky: Will Smith 'emasculated' Chris Rock but...
   • Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos. - 2025...
3. Brother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.
   • Near-synonym: man
   • don't tase me, bro
   • Hey bro, sorry to bother you but I think I accidentally backed up into your car — can I make it up to you?

   Synonyms: man

4. A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
5. Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
   • Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run. - 2021 May 25,...
   • One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race. - 2022 September 14, Brian Culp, Electric Cars...
   • He'd seen that false equivalency coming from AI bros time and time again, but hearing it from an AI itself was especially irritating. - 2024 May 23, ego_bot, There's Something Weird Going On: Ten Stories of...