What is "high brass"

Usage examples of "high brass".

There's a very strong smell of high brass and seriously deep black ops to this place.

The newly married couples were parading two by two out of the high brass-and-steel doors of the Wager Bay Cathedron, newly converted back to the Spirit of Man of the Stars.

Russ Millard told me that two Mexican men, both well-known dope traffickers, had been arrested in Juarez for the murder of Bobby De Witt and Felix Chasco, which eased my mind on Metro making Lee for the job--but then scuttlebutt filtered down from high, high brass circles.

Lee Blanchard was next to the board, standing beside a pale fat man with the air of high brass.

Christ, the high brass on this rock must be cutting their collective throats about now.

The deal was my file destroyed and ten grand in cash in exchange for some juicy dirt I had on the LAPD high brass.