Meaning of brown-brown | Babel Free

Definitions

Powdered cocaine or heroin mixed with smokeless gunpowder.

Africa, regional, slang, uncountable

Examples

“Such bartering in exchange⟳ for securing routes is not uncommon; the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) fighters in Sierra Leone regularly consumed crack cocaine and brown-brown (heroin) that were transshipped through their territories.”

“Only later in the afternoon, when the rebels ordered the child soldiers to kill⟳ did they carve slits into the boys' young temples, pierce holes into their tender veins, and rub cocaine and “brown-brown” heroin into their raw wounds.”

“During this time, Aminata was often sent into Freetown to buy⟳ drugs—mostly a crude form⟳ of heroin (“brown brown”) and some cocaine—to bring⟳ back to the fighters.”

“In Liberia and Sierra Leone, child soldiers often take⟳ a substance called “brown-brown,” a potent mixture of cocaine or heroin with gunpowder.”

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