Definitions

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  • noun A large number of children in a family; a large family.
  • noun Children in a family who are from previous partnerships of the parents; a family that includes children from previous partnerships of the parents.

Etymologies

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A reference to the television sitcom The Brady Bunch, which featured the joining of two single-parent families.

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Examples

  • Sep 4, 2006, 06: 00 AM | by Gary Susman interview with Robbie Rist, who will forever be known as The Brady Bunch's reviled Cousin Oliver, and scroll down to see what he looks like today at age 42.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Sep 4, 2006, 06: 00 AM | by Gary Susman interview with Robbie Rist, who will forever be known as The Brady Bunch's reviled Cousin Oliver, and scroll down to see what he looks like today at age 42.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Sep 4, 2006, 06: 00 AM | by Gary Susman interview with Robbie Rist, who will forever be known as The Brady Bunch's reviled Cousin Oliver, and scroll down to see what he looks like today at age 42.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • It's gonna take a week to shed the image of Elisabeth sitting in a pool of her child's urine. writer1: Yeah, way too many references to tampons for me, but then I lack the XX chromosome to appreciate that conversation. writer2: I'll probably tune in a few more times and see how the ladies jell, but at this point, I kinda miss interview with Robbie Rist, who will forever be known as The Brady Bunch's reviled Cousin Oliver, and scroll down to see what he looks like today at age 42.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • It's gonna take a week to shed the image of Elisabeth sitting in a pool of her child's urine. writer1: Yeah, way too many references to tampons for me, but then I lack the XX chromosome to appreciate that conversation. writer2: I'll probably tune in a few more times and see how the ladies jell, but at this point, I kinda miss interview with Robbie Rist, who will forever be known as The Brady Bunch's reviled Cousin Oliver, and scroll down to see what he looks like today at age 42.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • _The Brady Bunch_ ended and Billy switched the channel to the Flagstaff station to watch _Bewitched_.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • My other favorite childhood show was the Brady Bunch, which I heard was Michelle Obama's favorite too.

    Kari Henley: Reclaiming Spare Time Kari Henley 2010

  • _Dick Van Dyke_ segued into _Andy Griffith_, which segued into _The Flintstones_, which segued into _The Brady Bunch_.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • The movies he wrote and directed were highly stylized ballet dances of torture, hemorrhaging internal organs, and rat-a-tat-tat pop culture monologues about Madonna's vagina, the Brady Bunch, and what they call a Big Mac in France.

    Johann Hari: The Terrible Moral Emptiness of Quentin Tarantino Is Wrecking His Films 2009

  •  Staring up at the sun, at the fresh, blue sky, she is free of everything — bombs, divorces, abandoned cats, the Black Panthers and the Brady Bunch, even foreign films whose messages elude her.

    Bomba 2009

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