brass up

verb — 2 senses

brass up

verb

1

Slang To pay a debt or hand over money.

"What did he soak him? Five quid?" "Yes, sir." "And Gussie brassed up and was free?"1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:

2

Government, Military, Politics, War Slang To shell.

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

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