brody

plural brodies · alternative brodie

1. slangIntentionally spinning in circles and sliding in an automobile.

   I spun a brody in some chat up at the old zinc mine.

1. A surname from Scottish Gaelic, a variant of Brodie.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A city in western Ukraine.

plural Brodies

1. alternativeAlternative form of Brodie.

   Still the executive dithered: spent another week with pieces of paper on which he would list, in columns headed “pro” and “con,” reasons for and against taking his Brody.

   1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 84