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brown shirts

brown shirts is the plural of brown shirt.

Meaning of brown shirt

Noun

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
  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
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, shirt.

Noun capitalized: Brown Shirts

Brown Shirts

  1. (plural) plural of Brown Shirt

Questions about brown shirts

What is brown shirts the plural of?
Brown shirts is the plural of brown shirt.
What part of speech is brown shirts?
Brown shirts is a noun.

Words near brown shirts in the dictionary

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

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