brown-bag

brown-bag
verb or adjective

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—brown-bagger, n.
/brown"bag"/, v., brown-bagged, brown-bagging, adj.
v.t.
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.
v.i.
3. to carry one's lunch in a brown paper bag.
4. brown-bag it, to bring one's lunch to work or elsewhere, esp. in a brown paper bag.
adj.
5. brought to work, usually in a small brown paper bag: a brown-bag lunch.

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brown-bagˈ transitive verb and intransitive verb (US)
To bring (one's lunch, or alcohol) in a brown paper bag or something similar
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Main Entry: ↑brown

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brown-bag «BROWN BAG», adj., v. -bagged, -bag|ging.
–adj.
1. a) carrying a homemade lunch to work in a brown paper bag: »

brown-bag lunchers .

 b) carrying alcoholic liquor to consume from a bottle in a brown paper bag.
2. characteristic of or participated in by those who are considered a type that carry lunch to work: »

brown-bag protest .

–transitive verb., intransitive verb.
1. to carry (a homemade lunch) to work in a brown paper bag.
2. to carry alcoholic liquor to consume from a bottle in a brown paper bag.
–brown´-bag´ger, n.

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ˈbrown-bag 7 [brown-bag] verb (-gg-)\brown-bag sth (NAmE, informal)
to bring your lunch with you to work or school, usually in a brown paper bag

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My kids have been

brown-bagging it

this week.


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