Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To take (lunch) to work, typically in a brown paper bag.
- transitive verb To take (liquor) into a public establishment, such as a restaurant, that does not serve alcohol.
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- verb US To bring one's lunch to work or school in a
brown paperbag
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Examples
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If you brown-bag it to work, bring raw vegetables as a side dish.
How am I supposed to eat all those fruits and vegetables? 2010
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But he said he also meets once a month with agency staffers for brown-bag lunches, without managers present, to solicit opinions that might differ from his own.
Nuclear Regulator Defends Move on Waste Site Stephen Power 2011
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The businesses will get monthly support by way of training, networking, web series and brown-bag lunch talks.
Let the Arlington Green Games begin Erica Johnston 2010
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Pick a day to go meatless, for instance, or go for a walk, brown-bag your lunch, climb the stairs instead of taking the elevator, use one spoonful of sugar instead of two.
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If you brown-bag your lunch better for your body, your wallet, and the planet, make a sandwich and a half with lean protein on whole grain bread.
Deborah Chud: Six Steps to a Healthy 2012 Deborah Chud 2012
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Christian Adams also identify Ms. Fernandes as having explicitly told a brown-bag lunch gathering of the entire Voting Section that the administration would not enforce the list maintenance provisions of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act "NVRA".
New Black Panther Party case: The facts are in Jennifer Rubin 2011
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If you brown-bag your lunch better for your body, your wallet, and the planet, make a sandwich and a half with lean protein on whole grain bread.
Deborah Chud: Six Steps to a Healthy 2012 Deborah Chud 2012
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I remember several brown-bag lunches hosted by him inside UN headquarters where I would expound on why the UN should be doing better, and Annabi, in the courteous way of a Mediterranean official with the best Parisian education, would explain to me that I was partly wrong and that where I was right it was not the UN's fault.
Hédi Annabi, 1949-2010 nwhyte 2010
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If you brown-bag your lunch better for your body, your wallet, and the planet, make a sandwich and a half with lean protein on whole grain bread.
Deborah Chud: Six Steps to a Healthy 2012 Deborah Chud 2012
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On a quiet corner in a neighborhood of brick façades and architecture offices north of the Financial District, Cotogna "quince" in Italian offers two daytime options—a sit-down menu composed largely of pasta and pizza, and a recently launched brown-bag menu for takeout.
Cotogna Vauhini Vara 2011
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