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brown-brown

brown-brown noun: powdered cocaine or heroin mixed with smokeless gunpowder.

Noun

brown-brown (uncountable)

  1. (Africa, regional, slang) Powdered cocaine or heroin mixed with smokeless gunpowder.
    • Such bartering in exchange for securing routes is not uncommon; the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) fighters in Sierra Leone regularly consumed crack cocaine and brown-brown (heroin) that were transshipped through their territories.2009, Paul Rexton Kan, Drugs and Contemporary Warfare, page 53
    • Only later in the afternoon, when the rebels ordered the child soldiers to kill did they carve slits into the boys' young temples, pierce holes into their tender veins, and rub cocaine and “brown-brown” heroin into their raw wounds.2010, Sarah Culberson, A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All

Questions about brown-brown

What does brown-brown mean?
Brown-brown means powdered cocaine or heroin mixed with smokeless gunpowder.
What part of speech is brown-brown?
Brown-brown is a noun.

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  5. brown-bills
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  8. brown-eyed soul
  9. brown-eyed Susan
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