brown job
English
Etymology
From the colour of the uniform, and slang job (“thing”).
Noun
brown job (plural brown jobs)
- (UK, air force slang, dated) A member of the army.
- Coordinate term: blue job
- 2006, David W. Clark, Joe's Letters (page 38)
- Air force personnel used to distinguish airmen (blue jobs or boys in blue) from army personnel (brown jobs or boys in brown).
- 2020, David Beaty, The Gun Garden
- […] The Navy and the R.A.F. combine and throw the Army out of the window. It passes the time...' But that evening, it wasn't the Brown Jobs that were thrown out.