Did you possibly mean one of these? Romance, bromate, bromine, romance
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A close but non-sexual relationship between two men, a form of homosocial intimacy.
Examples
“After receiving three Emmy nominations, five Golden Globe nominations for best comedy series and praise for its unique portrayal of male friendships before the term "bromance" even entered the vernacular, Entourage has gone from awards bait to a punch line on CollegeHumor.com.”
Entourage Creator Doug Ellin on the End, the Backlash and When Fans Can Expect a Movie
“The term "bromance" could have been created to describe the great chemistry they show here.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Giltz: DVDs: One Of The Greatest "Guy" Movies Of All Time
“While the term bromance could be seen as emasculating, much of it is based around the very manly concept of pals before gals.”
“No wonder New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser weighed in on the controversy about what she called a "bromance" between the pair.”
The Guardian: Prince Andrew's link to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein taints royalty in US
“The most successful bro- blend is probably the word bromance (meaning "a close platonic relationship between two men") but there are dozens (if not hundreds) of bro-compounds that are more or less brona-fide.”
“Apatow, the US film-maker whose credits include The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad and Knocked Up, didn't coin the term bromance - a close, often co-dependent but ultimately nonsexual friendship between straight men - but has defined it on screen.”
“The inclusion of Superbad seems particularly misguided since that "bromance" - their word, not mine - is about the exact same thing as Sex and the City, which is the bond of friendship.”
“This is a real "bromance" - to borrow a Hollywood term I don't really like.”
“What ensues is an awkward but tender "bromance" - meaning a platonic male friendship played out in dude-lingo, such as "chillaxing," - which is helping to redefine the romantic comedy.”
“While we're certainly less than fanatical about all these weird new terms, such as the icky "bromance" - UK's "The Guardian" theorizes that the film "Dogma" may have”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bromance’.
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Not in the Periodic Table
Words that sound like they might be the names of elements of the periodic table, but that aren't. Many of the words listed here were actually proposed as names for substances their creators thought...
tentorium, columbarium, nasturtium, deuterium, caladium, valerian, concordium, synangium, chorium, geranium, hymenium, pyrenium and 310 more...
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henryar's list
marmoleum, menagerie, cyan, ochre, pilfer, discombobulate, loquacious, iridescent, amethyst, derelict, botulism, equilibrium and 240 more...
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Mandles, Candles for Men
candles with a "manly" scent
a1 steak sauce, baseball glove, grillin' out, campfire, pigskin, bowling alley, musty locker room, chuck norris sweat, urinal deodorizer, bait shop, wet dog, hardware store and 210 more...
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'Sup Bro?
bro-blends
brogrammer, bromance, bronies, brogressive, brodeo, bro-gurt, broetry, Bro-tox, bro-op, bronemy, bro-brand, broga and 45 more...
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Broisms
A collection of words yoinked from (but not limited to) Transworld's "Complete Broisms Dictionary".
See also The Secret Language of Bros.Abrocrombie And F..., acbronym, albrotross, afbro-American, afbrodesiac, Algebrah, ambrodextrous, anthbropology, best in bro, Bilbro Baggins, brahphet, Bro and Luke Duke and 78 more...
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chambers dictionary 12th edition
a list of whats new
anyone read the Chambers?agroterror, agroterrors, agroterrorist, agroterrorists, backronym, backronyms, bahookie, bahookies, beatboxed, beatboxing, biocomputer, biocomputers and 65 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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Myriadmiration
Neologisms ala Wordnik.com. Directly below are links to some other New Word lists... pease suggest yours to add!
Ne(word)er by whichbe
fake words by sionnach
frivolous uni...obstacular, frenemy, delayering, playgue, abjective, contradictionary, sarchasm, goggly, ecolect, disimagine, alligavate, sniboluous and 330 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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Fandom
fanfic, beta, fanboy, fangirl, fanfiction, fanficcer, spoiler, squeeing, shipping, shipper, ship, one true pairing and 130 more...
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♡LOVE and things like it♡
dedicated to my man Steven, without whom i would be addicted to drugs, lying in a gutter, hating myself, or hooking somewhere :)
affectionate, amative, amatory, amiable, ammophilous, amorous, ardent, attached to, attracted to, beloved, bewitching, bitten and 404 more...
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Australian
words not found in other
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Dictionary and not playable in
scrabbleabdul, abdulled, abdulling, abi, abiu, ablactate, absinthial, absinthian, absoluter, acalypha, acanthodian, acaroids and 5128 more...
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Time Out New York
words looked up while copyediting for this magazine
tonsorial, nudnick, doyenne, lothario, ebon, compere, cloaca, carom, evince, jocosity, profligacy, favela and 110 more...
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Clever and funny words
droll, huzzah, skedaddle, vamoose, rumpus, touche, clusterfuck, twaddle, tomfoolery, shindig, fandango, scallywag and 21 more...
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trendy words and phrases
teachable moment, tipping point, astroturfing, locavore, aquaculture, tentpole, jag, vom, weaksauce, juggalo, quantitative easing, nymwars and 15 more...
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Funny People (2009)
Words from 2009 'Funny People' film.
frenzy, mousy, antsy, flaky, stutter, twitch, purse, gullible, hatred, dum-dum, jack off, vanquish and 16 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for bromance.
etmlbristol Bromance
(noun)
1. The complicated love and affection between two straight males.
2. A non-sexual relationship between two unusually close guys
The modern nature and circumstances of bromance are what separate it from more general homosocial practices and historic romantic friendships.
Aristotle’s classical description of friendship is the prototype of bromance. He wrote around 300 BC, “It is those who desire the good of their friends for the friends' sake that are most truly friends, because each loves the other for what he is, and not for any incidental quality."
portmanteau of “bro” or “brother,” and “romance.”
Attestation:
1. Yesterday i saw my kr schoolmates sharing an umbrella lol cute bromance XDDD
(bbulmon93 on Twitter) http://twitter.com/bbulmon93/statuses/18515667836
2. Drake and Josh, best bromance ever!
(PPENOLOPEEE on Twitter) http://twitter.com/PPENELOPEEE/statuses/18507676482
3. Bromance is in the air <3
(terminalplague on Twitter) http://twitter.com/terminalplague/statuses/18507831395
Citations:
1. http://twitter.com/bbulmon93/statuses/18515667836
2. http://twitter.com/PPENELOPEEE/statuses/18507676482
3. http://twitter.com/terminalplague/statuses/18507831395
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromance
5. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bromance
Jul 14, 2010
ramsler "Learning to cope when the bromance is gone." Title of movie review of the film, "Greenberg". "If the past few years in cinema have celebrated the joys of bromance, it's only fitting that the next logical step would be the male breakup movie. (Washington Post, March 26, 2010). Mar 28, 2010
john “The prevalence of boys’ nonromantic hugging (especially of other boys) is most striking to adults. Experts say that over the last generation, boys have become more comfortable expressing emotion, as embodied by the MTV show “Bromance,” which is now a widely used term for affection between straight male friends.”
The New York Times, For Teenagers, Hello Means ‘How About a Hug?’, by Sarah Kershaw, May 27, 2009 May 28, 2009