brass
adj.— «He keeps moaning how brass [rubbish] Fosters are, seeing as he’s a Stella man.» —“Blood on the tracks” by Esther Addley Guardian (United Kingdom) Jan. 20, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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