Meaning & use
Bredren
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A close male friend or fellow member of one's community; a term of brotherhood used especially in Jamaican and British urban slang.
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He grabbed a drink with his bredren after work.
She introduced the whole crew as her bredren from back home.
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A dialectal variant of 'brethren,' rooted in Jamaican Patois and Rastafarian speech, now widely used in British urban English.
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