Definition of "brown-bag" [brown-bag]

• To take (lunch) to work, typically in a brown paper bag. (verb-transitive)
• To take (liquor) into a public establishment, such as a restaurant, that does not serve alcohol. (verb-transitive)

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• "I remember several brown-bag lunches hosted by him inside UN headquarters where I would expound on why the UN should be doing better, and Annabi, in the courteous way of a Mediterranean official with the best Parisian education, would explain to me that I was partly wrong and that where I was right it was not the UN's fault."
• "If you brown-bag your lunch better for your body, your wallet, and the planet, make a sandwich and a half with lean protein on whole grain bread."
• "Christian Adams also identify Ms. Fernandes as having explicitly told a brown-bag lunch gathering of the entire Voting Section that the administration would not enforce the list maintenance provisions of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act "NVRA"."