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Brahms
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English
Etymology
Shortened from the rhyming slang en Brahms and Liszt for "pissed".
Pronunciation
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Brahms.wav US
Adjective
en Cockney rhyming slang Pissed, drunk.
en 2010 Luke James Stairway to Nowhere 39 Now if we can all avoid getting Brahms at lunchtime, we'll be fine. Actually that is proving less of a problem the more we gig. No one drinks, snorts or smokes anything (other than fags) before shows.
Synonyms
See Thesaurus:drunk
Derived terms
en Brahmsian Brahmsite
en eponyms
German
Pronunciation
de /bʁaːms/
Proper noun
surname
de, notably of Johannes Brahms, a 19th century German composer
See also
de Brahms and Liszt