Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

brown shirt

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.48 in modern English

Syllables: brown shirt
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of Brownshirt.

noun

Alternative form of brown shirt (squadron personnel)

noun

Alternative form of Brownshirt.

noun

A worker whose role is identified by a uniform with a brown or khaki shirt.

noun

A worker whose role is identified by a uniform with a brown or khaki shirt.

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brown, shirt.

Example Sentences

"The Brown Shirts crowded close to the aircraft, taking righteous possession of it now that it was shut down on the deck."
"Brown Shirts were attached to the aircraft squadrons and were maintenance people."
""Don't look back right now, but I think some brown shirts are following us," Franz whispered."
"Known by the Germans as the SA but more commonly called storm troopers or brown shirts by Westerners, the SA were considered Hitler's own private army."
"In fact, during the very hours Hitler spoke, and while his train got up steam for the journey to his East Prussian headquarters, and while his loyal brown shirts strutted and swayed under a thick haze of cigarette smoke on reached the beer-drenched flood tide."
"Aircraft maintenance brown shirts crawled over the plane, checking fasteners and the landing carriage."

Inflected Forms

Brown Shirts (plural)

Questions

What does brown shirt mean?: Alternative form of Brownshirt.

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