Citations:brolic

English citations of brolic

Adjective: "(African American Vernacular, slang) having large, well-developed muscles"

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• 2005, Michael Daniel Baptiste, Godchild, page 136:

  If he wit' another nigga, small but brolic, that's our dude.

• 2005, Ca$h, Trust No Man: Loyalty To Those Who Are Loyal, unnumbered page:

  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.

• 2008, Kim Osorio, Straight from the Source: An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the Hip-Hop Bible, page 29:

  As journalists in hip-hop, it was easy to throw our business cards around and get in anywhere we wanted to, because at the end of the day there was always someone looking for his own press opportunity, whether it was the club promoter, the sidekick, or the brolic-looking security guard standing at the door.

• 2009, Sohail Daulatzai, "Acknowledgements", in Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic (eds. Michael Eric Dyson & Sohail Daulatzai), unnumbered page:

  To Michael Eric Dyson—mentor, brother, juggernaut—who is brolic with knowledge.

• 2009, Marlon Rice, Blow One Down: A Tragedy, page 230:

  He sat at the table with only a pair of blue denim shorts hanging off of his very brolic frame, and a long yellowish spliff hanging from his lips.

• 2010, Boog Deniro, Respect the Struggle, page 34:

  He was short, brolic, had wavy hair, and he talked real fast and slick.

• 2011, K'wan, Eviction Notice, page 43:

  King James had come home from prison on some real brolic shit and put the smash down on the hood he'd grown up in.

• 2013, Allison van Diepen, Street Pharm, page 65:

  He was mad brolic. Since he been in prison, he didn't have nothing else to do but work out.

• 2013, Samantha Underwood, Love After Miami, unnumbered page:

  Happy to know it was still there, she handed her license to the brolic security guard at the door and stepped in.

• 2014, JaQuavis Coleman, The White House, page 35:

  Seconds later, the door opened and a tall, dark brolic man appeared.

• 2015, Tony J. Ward Jr., I’ve Got to Make It to Heaven for Going Through Hell - Part 2, unnumbered page:

  Dude was brolic. He looked like a bodybuilder from the hood. Oh well, dude still bleeds just like me.

• 2019, Shaun Sinclar, King Reece, unnumbered pages:

  Reece noticed that Hulk looked like he was the one who finished a bid, because he was brolic now. Hulk had always been huge, but now he was chiseled, similar to a statue. Muscles bulged underneath his linen shirt without mercy.

• 2020, Lamar Gardner, A Brick Out Of Place: My Rite Of Passage, unnumbered page:

  Now it's one am in the morning and I'm finished with this package so I go and take Dave his money, now when I saw Dave earlier he had a bodyguard with him named KK, a real brolic dude but when I went to hit Dave, KK wasn't there this time.

• 2022, Al-Saadiq Banks, Block Party 666: Mark of the Beast Volume 2, unnumbered page:

  A brolic 6' 4" tall, Irish giant holds the door for McCaulley to enter.

• 2022, Marquis Bey, Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender, unnumbered page:

  But he was more than all of this; he jammed the continuity of brolic DBZ fighters, giving kids like me, given to the nonmasculine, the queer- and trans-adjacent, different possibilities for living life.

• 2022, Fat Joe, The Book of Jose, unnumbered page:

  There 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.