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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