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▸ noun: (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
▸ noun: (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
▸ noun: A brown horse or other animal.
▸ noun: (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
▸ noun: (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
▸ noun: (entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
▸ noun: (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
▸ noun: (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
▸ adjective: Having a brown colour.
▸ adjective: (obsolete) Gloomy.
▸ adjective: (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
▸ adjective: (US) Latino
▸ adjective: (of Asians) South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
▸ adjective: (of East-Eurasian ancestry) Southeast Asian
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become brown.
▸ verb: (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
▸ verb: (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
▸ verb: (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
▸ verb: (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
▸ noun: (countable) A surname.
▸ noun: An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname.
▸ noun: An Irish surname of Anglo-Norman origin, a translation of de Brún.
▸ noun: A locale in the United States.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in California; named for hotelier George Brown.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Louisiana; named for landowner George W. Brown.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Oklahoma; named for postmaster Robert H. Brown.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in West Virginia; named for early settler John Brown.
▸ noun: A ghost town in Nevada.
▸ noun: A number of townships in the United States, listed under Brown Township.
▸ noun: Brown University.
▸ noun: Alternative letter-case form of brown (“person with a dark complexion”) [(countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.]
▸ adjective: (chiefly US, often Canada and UK) Alternative letter-case form of brown (“of a dark complexion”) [Having a brown colour.]
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