Describing a person, energy, or situation that radiates unmistakable UK lad vibes without necessarily using the word itself — the shrug-and-grimace, the rhetorical 'nah bruv', the total lack of ceremony about genuinely important things. Something bruv-coded doesn't need to be British; it just carries that particular frequency of bloke-ish bewilderment and casual solidarity. Your American cousin who inexplicably says 'that's peak' and shakes his head at everything? Fully bruv-coded. The vibe precedes the vocabulary.
His entire reaction to getting promoted was bruv coded — just a slow nod, a sigh, and 'yeah alright then'.
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