brass up
English
Verb
- (military, slang, transitive) To shell.
- 1982, The Listener (volume 108, page 3)
- The next time I met RSM Simpson was when we were together being 'brassed up' by enemy artillery and mortar […]
- 1987, Stuart Rintoul, Ashes of Vietnam: Australian voices (page 126)
- I went back in and threw a hand-grenade under the bed and then I brassed up the house. They were dead, of course.
- 1982, The Listener (volume 108, page 3)
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