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brown bomber¹

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Refers to the colour of parking inspector uniforms worn for several decades in Sydney, Australia and other major cities.

noun brown bombers

  1. Australia, slang A parking officer, employed to issue parking tickets (i.e. fines) to vehicles parked illegally or for longer than the permitted time. 1971, John O'Grady, Dealing with Cops, from Aussie Etiket. Quoted in Aussie Humour, Macmillan, 1988, →ISBN, page 200. There is another kind called 'brown bombers'. They are very interested in parked cars. They put chalk marks on tyres and leave little notes, in envelopes, under windscreen wipers.

    Similar: grey ghost

brown bomber²

noun brown bombers

  1. An American cocktail containing peanut liqueur.

brown bomber³

noun brown bombers

  1. US, dated, slang A laxative.

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"brown bomber." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/brown%20bomber. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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brown bomber. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/brown%20bomber

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"brown bomber." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/brown%20bomber.

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@misc{brown_bomber_2026,
  title = {brown bomber},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brown%20bomber},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}