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brown shirt

brown shirt noun: a member of the squadron personnel on an aircraft carrier. Also the alternative form of Brownshirt.

Noun (1)

brown shirt (plural brown shirts)

  1. A member of the squadron personnel on an aircraft carrier.
    • Aircraft maintenance brown shirts crawled over the plane, checking fasteners and the landing carriage.1992, Richard Parry, Venom Virus, page 206
    • Two "brown shirts" remove the chains tying the Greyhound to the flight deck pad eyes.1999, United States. Naval Air Systems Command, Naval aviation news, page 23
  2. A member of the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Protection Services.
    • We really could use a brown shirt in the Park. I don't have time to be screwing around with critter problems.2007, Dana Stabenow, A Deeper Sleep, →ISBN, page 36
    • The divisions overlap at some points, like Soldotna and Anchor Point -- blue shirts handling criminal and traffic complaints, brown shirts sticking to more mission-related issues -- but in Cordova the wildlife troopers cover all law enforcement that falls under the state's jurisdiction. Cloward...2013, C. B. Bernard, Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now, →ISBN, page 233
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, shirt.

Noun (2) capitalized: Brown Shirt

Brown Shirt (plural Brown Shirts)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Brownshirt.
  2. (alternative) Alternative form of brown shirt (squadron personnel)
    • The Brown Shirts crowded close to the aircraft, taking righteous possession of it now that it was shut down on the deck.1997, Keith Douglass, Alpha Strike, →ISBN, page 73
    • Brown Shirts were attached to the aircraft squadrons and were maintenance people.2011, Max Gallimore, From Here to Caprock, →ISBN, page 266

Also used as

brown shirt is also the alternative form of Brownshirt.

Examples of brown shirt in a sentence

  • In addition to the constant inspections, brown shirts check fluid levels, prepare the cockpit for flight and ensure there is no foreign object debris that could damage the "bird".2014, Bishop Aaron Williams, My Father’s Business: A Memoir of Purpose and Revelation, →ISBN, pages 12–13:
  • Cloward oversees a few brown shirts, and the motherly Dixie Lambert, who runs the office, handles dispatch and generally keeps the rest of the staff in line.2013, C. B. Bernard, Chasing Alaska: A Portrait of the Last Frontier Then and Now, →ISBN, page 233:
  • “Frankly, I never thought of the brown shirts when I asked the blue shirts to attend this meeting,” Commissioner Burton admitted, “but you're right.2015, Ron Dalby, Pipeline, →ISBN:

Forms of brown shirt

pluralbrown shirts
pluralBrown Shirts

Questions about brown shirt

What does brown shirt mean?
Brown shirt means a member of the squadron personnel on an aircraft carrier.
How do you use brown shirt in a sentence?
In addition to the constant inspections, brown shirts check fluid levels, prepare the cockpit for flight and ensure there is no foreign object debris that could damage the "bird".
What part of speech is brown shirt?
Brown shirt is a noun.
What is the plural of brown shirt?
The plural of brown shirt is brown shirts.

Words near brown shirt in the dictionary

  1. brown sauces
  2. brown seaweed
  3. brown seaweeds
  4. brown shark
  5. brown sharks
  6. brown shirt
  7. brown shirts
  8. brown shoe
  9. brown shoes
  10. brown shower
  11. brown showers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brown shirt (page history and authors); Brown Shirt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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