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1 N‑SING If someone has a brogue , they speak English with a strong accent, especially Irish or Scots. □  Gill speaks in a quiet Irish brogue.

2 N‑COUNT [usu pl] Brogues are thick leather shoes which have an elaborate pattern punched into the leather.

broil /brɔ I l/ (broils , broiling , broiled ) VERB When you broil food, you cook it using very strong heat directly above or below it. [AM ] □ [V n] I'll broil the lobster. □ [V -ed] …broiled chicken. in BRIT, use grill

broil|er /brɔ I lə ^r / (broilers ) N‑COUNT A broiler is a part of a stove which produces strong heat and cooks food placed underneath it. [AM ] in BRIT, use grill

broil|ing /brɔ I l I ŋ/ ADJ If the weather is broiling , it is very hot. [AM , INFORMAL ] □  …the broiling midday sun.

broke /broʊ k/

1Broke is the past tense of break .

2 ADJ [v-link ADJ ] If you are broke , you have no money. [INFORMAL ] □  What do you mean, I've got enough money? I'm as broke as you are.

3 PHRASE If a company or person goes broke , they lose money and are unable to continue in business or to pay their debts. [INFORMAL , BUSINESS ] □  Balton went broke twice in his career.

4 PHRASE If you go for broke , you take the most extreme or risky of the possible courses of action in order to try and achieve success. [INFORMAL ] □  It was a sharp disagreement about whether to go for broke or whether to compromise.

bro|ken /broʊ kən/

1Broken is the past participle of break .

2 ADJ [ADJ n] A broken line is not continuous but has gaps or spaces in it. □  A broken blue line means the course of a waterless valley.

3 ADJ [ADJ n] You can use broken to describe a marriage that has ended in divorce, or a home in which the parents of the family are divorced, when you think this is a sad or bad thing. [DISAPPROVAL ] □  She spoke for the first time about the traumas of a broken marriage. □  Children from broken homes are more likely to leave home before the age of 18.

4 ADJ [ADJ n] If someone talks in broken English, for example, or in broken French, they speak slowly and make a lot of mistakes because they do not know the language very well. □  Eric could only respond in broken English.

bro ken-do wn ADJ [usu ADJ n] A broken-down vehicle or machine no longer works because it has something wrong with it. □  …a broken-down car.

bro ken-hea rted ADJ Someone who is broken-hearted is very sad and upset because they have had a serious disappointment.

bro|ker ◆◇◇ /broʊ kə ^r / (brokers , brokering , brokered )

1 N‑COUNT A broker is a person whose job is to buy and sell shares, foreign money, or goods for other people. [BUSINESS ]

2 VERB If a country or government brokers an agreement, a ceasefire, or a round of talks, they try to negotiate or arrange it. □ [V n] He has already brokered a peace treaty that will come into force on Friday.

bro|ker|age /broʊ kər I dʒ/ (brokerages ) N‑COUNT [usu N n] A brokerage or a brokerage firm is a company of brokers. [BUSINESS ] □  …Japan's four biggest brokerages.

brol|ly /brɒ li/ (brollies ) N‑COUNT A brolly is the same as an umbrella . [BRIT , INFORMAL ]

bro|mance /broʊ mæns/ (bromances ) N‑COUNT A bromance is a close but not sexual relationship between two men. [INFORMAL ] □  The two men continued their bromance with a trip to the theatre.

bro|mide /broʊ ma I d/ (bromides )

1 N‑VAR Bromide is a drug which used to be given to people to calm their nerves when they were worried or upset. □  …a dose of bromide.

2 N‑COUNT A bromide is a comment which is intended to calm someone down when they are angry, but which has been expressed so often that it has become boring and meaningless. [FORMAL ] □  The meeting produced the usual bromides about the environment.