Meanings
comparative more brolic · superlative most brolic
- slangAfrican-American VernacularHaving large, well-developed muscles.
He was mad brolic. Since he been in prison, he didn't have nothing else to do but work out.
2013, Allison van Diepen, Street Pharm, page 652 more examples
Lonnie and Shotgun Pete had beef with Black Boy, a big brolic drug dealer from Thomasville Heights, the projects up the street from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, not far from Englewood.
2005, Ca$h, Trust No Man: Loyalty To Those Who Are Loyal, unnumbered pageThere were twelve brolic security guards lined up against just the two of us. Imagine having to fight a dozen guys who were all the size of a WWE wrestler like The Undertaker.
2022, Fat Joe, The Book of Jose, unnumbered page
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Englishbroccoli
- Japaneseブロリー
- Englishbrolic
Reportedly coined in reference to the extremely muscular character Broly from the Dragon Ball anime franchise, with the suffix -ic. Broly is a transliteration of the Japanese ブロリー (Burorī), itself coined as a pun on the English broccoli, a theme used in the naming of members of the fictional Saiyan alien species (e.g. Vegeta, from vegetable).
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