high brass

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1 : brass containing at least 33 percent zinc — compare low brass

2 : high-ranking officers or officials the living honorees weren't always political or military or railroad high brass— B. A. Botkin & A. F. Harlow doesn't know enlisted men and their opinion of high brass— G. W. Johnson

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The first known use of high brass was in 1951

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