British slang meaning brilliant or excellent. Often used as an exclamation or adjective in informal British speech. The word is a casual shortening of 'brilliant' that also evokes the brand name Brillo (steel wool pads), though the slang sense is entirely separate. Common in British informal conversation.
'That's brillo — I didn't know they were doing another series,' she said, genuinely delighted.
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(slang) Brilliant; excellent.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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