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<p>In popular culture, the Bro Code is a friendship <a href="/facts/Etiquette/pfD1E8bL">etiquette</a> to be followed among men or, more specifically, among members of the <a href="/facts/Bro_(subculture)/NWwLFAf9">bro subculture</a>. For women, there’s a similar concept called <a href="/facts/Girl_code/CTx04pwC">girl code</a>. The term was invented and popularized by <a href="/facts/Barney_Stinson/LU22UDEe">Barney Stinson</a>, a character from the television show <i><a href="/facts/How_I_Met_Your_Mother/Qk2YNE8M">How I Met Your Mother</a></i>. Katherine Connor Martin, head of content creation at <a href="/facts/OxfordDictionaries.com/kfecTBwv">Oxford Dictionaries</a>, recognized Stinson as "the quintessence of a certain iteration of the contemporary bro". </p>