brown bread

English

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Noun

brown bread (usually uncountable, plural brown breads)

  1. Bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread.
  2. Whole-wheat bread.
    Synonym: wheat bread

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Adjective

brown bread (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, Cockney rhyming slang) dead
    • 2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers:
      I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.

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