Usually means: Boldness or audacity in behavior.
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  1. brass neck: Collins English Dictionary
  2. brass neck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. brass-neck, brass neck: Wiktionary
  4. brass neck: Dictionary.com
  5. brass neck: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. brass neck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. brass-neck: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Brass Neck: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (brass neck)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic, UK, Ireland) Gall, shamelessness, cheek.
▸ noun:  (idiomatic, UK, Ireland) A person with gall.

Similar:
brass balls, gall, cheek, top bollocks, lire, sauce, cheeky chops, snash, braggery, sass, more...

Opposite:
humility, meekness, modesty

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Similar:
brass balls, gall, cheek, top bollocks, lire, sauce, cheeky chops, snash, braggery, sass, more...

Opposite:
humility, meekness, modesty



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