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brown bar
noun
in the US Army, a second lieutenant US
The single brass bar worn by the second lieutenant was camouflaged in the field and became a single brown bar.- I was alliteratively known as the “boot brown-bar,” slang for a raw second lieutenant. — Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War, p. 31, 1977
- They were all with colonels and didn’t want to know no brown bar out of the bush. — Mark Baker, Nam, p. 92, 1981
- Except that the lieutenant, that fucking brown-bar ROTC idiot no more than three days in-country, had to tag along for the ride. — John Skipp and Craig Spector, The Scream, p. 98, 1988
- — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 29, 1991
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