Why does brass mean prostitute

At the moment, it is very fashionable to use famous people's names, so the DJ Pete Tong is used meaning 'wrong'- 'thing's have gone Pete Tong'. This is how Cockney Rhyming Slang got this name. English for Students. Popular Pages Home. More Info. Ethical conundrums. This sporting life. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees. I guess it is rhyming slang but what?

Steve, Leeds UK I too have wondered about this for a long time. The only connection that I could make was 'Thomas Moore' rhyming with 'whore.

I'll leave the rest for you to work out! Kenny Reeves, Hitchin England In the United States brothels are known as "cat houses" so despite our UK use of the word tomcat for a male of the species it could be that script writers saw the link as being of some interest.

Half the time I think scriptwriters just make these up. Viewed 8k times. In the following dialogue, the main character, a Cockney English speaker played by actor Danny Dyer, waxes philosophical about why he enjoys being a football hooligan and would rather do nothing else on a weekend: What else are you gonna do on a Saturday?

I'm guessing this is slang of some sort, and I'd love to understand what he means by each word. Improve this question. Uticensis Uticensis Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.

Peter Taylor Peter Taylor 3, 22 22 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. Robusto: Aye, brasses in that context does mean prostitutes or related stuff, strip club girls, etc. A fruit machine is our phrase for what Americans call a slot machine , fruit because most of the earlier ones had fruit pictures on the reels and mainly still do.

To add to Peter's answer, with the parts he did not cover. Orbling Orbling 4, 2 2 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges.

Spagirl Spagirl Wow, I had no idea that "Corinthian leather" from the famous Chrysler ad campaign had that connotation. Wilfred Robert Wilfred Robert 1. Brass means a prostitute or easy sex, but exactly why, -- the connecting word -- is debated. There's a long association between immodesty and brass cf brazen as a contrast with gold as a cheap imitation. The first two aren't slang terms; only the third is. Kebab means meat cooked on a skewer, generally from the Eastern Mediterranean.