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Verbi

1. (intransitive) To become brown.
2. (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.
3. (intransitive, transitive) To tan.
4. (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
5. (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
6. (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.

Substantiivi

1. (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
2. (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
3. (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
4. (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
5. A brown horse or other animal.
6. (sometimes capitalised, countable, informal, ethnic slur) A person of mostly Latin American (or Latino), Middle Eastern/North African, South Asian, and sometimes Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or rarely Native American descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto, or biracial appearance.
7. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae), such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
8. (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
9. (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.

Adjektiivi

1. Having a brown colour.
2. (obsolete) Gloomy.
3. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
4. (US) Latino/Latin American
5. (US, loosely, vague) of color.
6. (of Asians and Africans) South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
7. (of East-Eurasian ancestry) Southeast Asian, Pacific Islander, or sometimes Native American
8. Not green (environmentally irresponsible); anti-green (against environmental protection).