Brahms
English
Etymology
Shortened from the rhyming slang Brahms and Liszt for "pissed".
Adjective
Brahms (comparative more Brahms, superlative most Brahms)
- (Cockney rhyming slang) Pissed, drunk.
- 2010, Luke James, Stairway to Nowhere (page 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.
- 2010, Luke James, Stairway to Nowhere (page 39)
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:drunk
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁaːms/
Proper noun
Brahms
- A surname, notably of Johannes Brahms, a 19th century German composer.
See also
Brahms on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Brahms and Liszt