See Also: brother-in-law(dictionary)
big brother(dictionary)
co-brother(dictionary)
brother(2)(dictionary)
brother(1)(dictionary)
Brother(medicine)
Brother Inds(finance)
brother 2, interjection(dictionary)
brother 1, noun(dictionary)
half-brother(dictionary)

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Big Brother n [U]
[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: Big Brother powerful ruler who controlled everything in the book Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell]
any person, organization, or system that seems to want to control people's lives and restrict their freedom
::Increasingly, the state is taking a big brother role in this area.