brown job

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English

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Etymology

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From the colour of the uniform, and slang job (thing).

Noun

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brown job (plural brown jobs)

  1. (UK, air force slang, dated) A member of the army.
    Coordinate term: blue job
    • 2006, David W. Clark, Joe's Letters, page 38:
      Air force personnel used to distinguish airmen (blue jobs or boys in blue) from army personnel (brown jobs or boys in brown).
    • 2020, David Beaty, The Gun Garden:
      [] The Navy and the R.A.F. combine and throw the Army out of the window. It passes the time...' But that evening, it wasn't the Brown Jobs that were thrown out.