Nearby Words
Paper Bags - 5,500 Styles www.papermart.com/ Guaranteed Low Prices. IN STOCK. Brown Bag Ships Tonight!
Brown Bag Clothing www.target.com/ Brown Bag Clothing Online. Free Ship on $50 -Women's Clothing.
The Lunchmaster www.thelunchmaster.com/ Healthy, well balanced, affordable school lunch offered in California
Ads
verb (used with object)
1.
to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially 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.
00:10
00:09
00:08
00:07
00:06
00:05
00:04
00:03
00:02
00:01
Brown-bag
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is bowdlerise. Does it mean:
| to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about. |
| to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable. |
adjective
Idiom4.
brought to work, usually in a small brown paper bag: a brown-bag lunch.
5.
brown-bag it, to bring one's lunch to work or elsewhere, especially in a brown paper bag.
Related forms
brown-bag·ger, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
Cite This Source
|
Link To brown-bag
Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon
| Main Entry: | brown-bag |
| Part of Speech: | adj |
| Definition: | pertaining to a meal, usu. Lunch, brought from home, esp. in a paper bag |
| Usage: | cooking |
Slang Dictionary
brown-bag definition
|
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
Cite This Source
Word Dynamo Rating For Brown-bag
Dictionary.com, LLC. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved.
