brown job

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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.