brown bomber

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

brown bombers 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A parking officer, employed to issue parking tickets (i.e. fines) to vehicles parked illegally or for longer than the permitted time.

    澳大利亚 俚语

    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. 1.

    An American cocktail containing peanut liqueur.

  3. 1.

    A laxative.

    美国 过时 俚语 政治 军事

词源

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

来源：wiktionary