[Ads-l] bro down 'become (male )friends'

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jan 27, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 2017 _Sleepy Hollow_ (Fox TV) (Jan. 20): Now that we're neighbors, we can
> bro down, hang out, and chill, old baggins.
> 
> (Sure sounded like "old baggins" to me.)
> 
"Hey, man, now that we're neighbors, we can bro down, hang out, Chill-doh Baggins."

http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=30669

Presumably a pun on “Bilbo Baggins” and possibly “Dildo Baggins” but since I’m not a Sleepy Hollower I can’t unpack it.

“Bro” also appears as a verb in “bro (it) up” (‘to render more bro-y’, etc.: what you do with your bros after you’ve bro’d down with them) and as the base of the privative verb “de-bro”, as in the headline in the print version of a Times article,

"Female voices help de-bro country's hits"

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/arts/music/country-male-female-duets.html
[article doesn’t contain a direct reference to de-broing songs, but describes the process of a pushback against "the blithe, boozy bangers that seemed to rule the genre — the trend referred to by critics as bro country”

LH

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