Brass (disambiguation)

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Other uses of this term include:

• Brass is a metal alloy of copper and zinc.
• brass instrument, a musical instrument where the sound is produced by the vibration of the musician's lips.
• brasses may refer to metal commemorative plates laid down in British and European churches from the 13th Century onwards. These can be reproduced by brass rubbing
• A Horse brass is a plaque used to decorate shire horses
• The term brass can refer to the senior ranks in an organization, especially military organizations. The term is derived from the extra metal adornments worn by senior officers.
• Brass refers to empty shell casings ejected from a firearm.
• Brass, in some English dialects, means money. There is an expression, "where there's muck there's brass".
• Brass, a British television comedy drama series of the 1980s, starring Timothy West.
• As brass is sometimes used as an inexpensive substitute for gold, the term brassy has come to mean showy and tasteless.
• A brass is also British slang for a prostitute, hence brassy behaviour (i.e. 'slutty', 'tasteless', etc.).
• A Brass is a round token used by tradesmen in exchange for borrowing a tool from one another, to insure its return."
• Jim Brass, a character on the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
• Tinto Brass, an Italian filmmaker.
• Brass refers to a "dynamic Windows enhancement tool" http://www.amazingbrass.co.uk/