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brown job

brown job noun: a member of the army.

Noun

brown job (plural brown jobs)

  1. (UK, dated, air force slang) A member of the army.
    • Air force personnel used to distinguish airmen (blue jobs or boys in blue) from army personnel (brown jobs or boys in brown).2006, David W. Clark, Joe's Letters, page 38
    • […] The Navy and the R.A.F. combine and throw the Army out of the window. It passes the time...' But that evening, it wasn't the Brown Jobs that were thrown out.2020, David Beaty, The Gun Garden

Forms of brown job

pluralbrown jobs

Origin of brown job

From the colour of the uniform, and slang job (“thing”).

Questions about brown job

What does brown job mean?
Brown job means a member of the army.
What part of speech is brown job?
Brown job is a noun.
What is the plural of brown job?
The plural of brown job is brown jobs.

Words near brown job in the dictionary

  1. brown hydrogen
  2. brown hyena
  3. brown hyenas
  4. brown inca
  5. brown incas
  6. brown job
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  8. brown joke
  9. brown jolly
  10. brown king crab
  11. brown king crabs

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