buroo

1. (Scotland, slang) The Labour Bureau; hence, unemployment benefits; the dole.Examples: "Johnny kenned at once the coarse brute was drunk same as father was Friday nights when he got his money from the Broo."; "‘Anyway, MacFee is very good at stripping lead and copper and zinc and iron from old factories and houses that are going to be demolished – folk pay him to do that, and when work is short he never goes on the burroo."