n.
1.a male with the same parents as someone else
2.a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion of other group)
3.a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
4.used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement
5.(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address
Idiom of the Day
boil down to (something)
to reduce something to its essential or main part
The reason that we could not go on a holiday boiled down to the fact that we had no money.