1. brown bag - Noun
2. brown bag - Verb
A brown paperbag.
(idiomatic) A short presentation or seminar on a given subject, especially one given at lunchtime.
Did you attend the brown bag Tuesday on healthy exercise habits?
To carry one's lunch from home, as in a bag, rather than purchase it from a cafeteria or restaurant.
To consume alcohol in public from the bottle or can, while it is held concealed inside a brown paper bag, so as to avoid attention e.g. from the police.
(agriculture) To plant seed saved from one's own harvest, as opposed to buying new seed from a seed company.
brown-bag (third-person singular simple present brown-bags, present participle brown-bagging, simple past and past participle brown-bagged)
(US) Alternative form of brown bag
John brown-bagged it today.
brown-bag (plural brown-bags)
Alternative form of brown bag
brown-bag
Because there’s nothing that can wilt, it holds up well, so add it to your brown-bag lunch rotation. Source: Internet
If the price gets you down, consider grabbing one of their brown-bag lunches for a cheaper taste. Source: Internet
When he got his first job as a telemarketer (''I lasted a day,'' he says), Mommy packed him a brown-bag lunch. Source: Internet