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brown-bag

  [broun-bag] verb, -bagged, -bag⋅ging, adjective
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–verb (used with object)
1. to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, esp. one that has no liquor license.
2. to bring (one's lunch) to work or elsewhere, usually in a small brown paper bag.
–verb (used without object)
3. to carry one's lunch in a brown paper bag.
–adjective
4. brought to work, usually in a small brown paper bag: a brown-bag lunch.
—Idiom
5. brown-bag it, to bring one's lunch to work or elsewhere, esp. in a brown paper bag.
Related forms:
brown-bagger, noun
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Slang Dictionary
brown-bag

  1. n.
    a bag lunch. : Bring a brown-bag, and we'll talk and eat at the same time.
  2. in.
    to carry a bag lunch. : He's back to brown-bagging while he saves up for his vacation.
  3. mod.
    having to do with an event during which people eat their own bag lunches. : These brown-bag affairs seem so tacky.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

brown bagger

A person who brings his or her own supplies, as in The architects of the new office designed a space for brown baggers to eat lunch. The term originated in the 1930s in Britain for very serious students who carried their books about with them in brown briefcases or bags. That usage crossed the Atlantic within a few decades. However, in America from the 1960s on, it has primarily been used for persons who brought their own liquor in a brown paper bag, either legitimately or surreptitiously, to a public place or restaurant not licensed to sell it, or for those who took their lunch to work.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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