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brown bars

brown bars is the plural of brown bar.

Meaning of brown bar

Noun

brown bar (plural brown bars)

  1. (US, slang) A second lieutenant.
    • Making a rather astute deduction from the fact that the brown bar in white fatigues was loaded down with a huge bottle of clear liquid and an assortment of tubes and needles, […]1978, The MAC Flyer, page 25

Questions about brown bars

What is brown bars the plural of?
Brown bars is the plural of brown bar.

Words near brown bars in the dictionary

  1. brown bag tests
  2. brown bagged
  3. brown bagging
  4. brown bags
  5. brown bar
  6. brown bars
  7. brown bastard
  8. brown bastards
  9. brown beaksedge
  10. brown bean
  11. brown beans

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