bromance

[broh-mans, broh-mans]

noun

Informal.

1. a friendship between two men that is close but does not involve sex (usually used facetiously).

Other Word Forms

• bromantic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bromance¹

First recorded in 2000-05; bro + (ro)mance ¹

Example Sentences

In last year’s Bob Dylan biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” Dylan and Johnny Cash appear together on screen just twice, after a long epistolary bromance.

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This may, however, point to the eventual consequence of this UK-tech bromance.

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The "tech bromance" embraced the UK this week with a hat-trick of multi-billion investments from Nvidia, Microsoft and Google.

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His bestseller is a road trip bromance featuring thinly veiled versions of himself as Sal Paradise, and his best friend Neal Cassady as Dean Moriarty.

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Actually, it was a couple of days ago, but even though I was pretty sure that the famous bromance was on the rocks, due to all the vicious, anonymous back-stabbing by administration figures, I had no idea it was going to blow up as spectacularly as it did on Thursday.

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