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Brodie; Brody
noun- a fall or leap from a great height US, 1899
An allusion to Steve Brodie, a New York bookmaker who in 1886 claimed to have survived a leap from the Brooklyn Bridge and then opened a tavern which succeeded as a result of the publicity surrounding his claimed leap. - I wondered if the undertaker had been born yet who was slick enough to paste a sucker’s ass together after a “Brodie” fifteen-stories down. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 165, 1969
- a feigned drug withdrawal spasm US, 1936
- A drug addict’s life is dedicated to cheating, lying, conniving, and “conning” to obtain illegal drugs. It’s an obsession. And they’ll go to any length to achieve their purpose. They’ll pull a “Brody” or “Cartwheel” (feigned spasms) to elicit sympathy. — San Francisco News, p. 1, 5 December 1951
- — David Maurer and Victor Vogel, Narcotics and Narcotic Addiction, p. 392, 1973
- a failure to perform as expected CANADA
- Now, Gogerty, you do handy with those chicks, hear? You pull a brodie and it’s your ass, right? — Hugh Garner, The Intruders, p. 34, 1976
- a play that is a complete failure US
- — Sherman Louis Sergel, The Language of Show Biz, p. 29, 1973
- a skid, usually controlled US, 1953
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 24, 1965
- He swung the car out into the stream of traffic, punching the gas, doing a deft brody that set off a chain of honks from cut-off motorists. — James Ellroy, Suicide Hill, p. 598, 1986
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