brown bomber

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A parking officer, employed to issue parking tickets (i.e. fines) to vehicles parked illegally or for longer than the permitted time. Australia,slang
    — 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.
  2. An American cocktail containing peanut liqueur.
  3. A laxative. US,dated,slang

词形变化

brown bombers plural brown bombers plural brown bombers plural

词源

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