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Brother gets nasty colic, eating this? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

broccoli

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'eating this?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'brother gets nasty colic' is the wordplay.
'brother' becomes 'bro' (short for brother).
'gets' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'nasty' indicates anagramming the letters.
'colic' is an anagram of 'ccoli'.
'bro'+'ccoli'='BROCCOLI'

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(Other definitions for broccoli that I've seen before include "Cubby --------, co-founder of the James Bond film franchise" , "Vegetable with tightly packed green or purple flower heads" , "Variety of cabbage, green heads" , "Vegetable of cabbage family" , "Vegetable in a strange cool crib" .)

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