Meaning of brown bomber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A parking officer, employed to issue parking tickets (i.e. fines) to vehicles parked illegally or for longer than the permitted time.
   Australia, slang
2. An American cocktail containing peanut liqueur.
3. A laxative.
   US, dated, slang

Examples

“1971, John O'Grady, Dealing with Cops, from Aussie Etiket. Quoted in Aussie Humour, Macmillan, 1988, →ISBN, page 200. There is another kind called 'brown bombers'. They are very interested in parked cars. They put⟳ chalk marks on tyres and leave⟳ little notes, in envelopes, under windscreen wipers.”

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