brown bread
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brown bread (usually uncountable, plural brown breads)
- Bread with a brown colour as distinct from white bread, wholemeal, granary or other specific types of bread.
- Whole-wheat bread.
- Synonym: wheat bread
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type of bread
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brown bread (not comparable)
- (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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- See also Thesaurus:dead