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  • brown-paper roll
    [from preparation] n. a cigarette hand-rolled in brown wrapping paper. (Gen.)
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  • brown (flour) tea
    (Black); brown flour soup (Nassau, Mayag.) n. a hot drink made by brown-ing flour in a pot, then mixing in
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  • brown-eyes
    [cf. EYES eye] n. a bruised eye: A brown-eyes. = BUST EYE (Mayag.)
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  • brown ebony
    [W3 different sp.] n. a tree, Pera humeliaefolia: 1905 (Shattuck 257). (Mayag.)
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  • broom bush
    n. 1. [OED different sp.] a plant: 1920 Gundlachia corymbosa (Britton 442). 1977 Baccharis dioica (Patterson 120). = HORSE BUSH
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  • bro-man
    [cf. BRO brother + MAN, both terms of address] term of address for a male peer: 1966 (Crowley 49). (Black)
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  • broke off
    [cf. BROKE break; OED break off to start obs. 1591 only] v.phr. to begin suddenly: 1966 He broke off running
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  • broken English
    [OED broken of language: imperfectly spoken, with the syntax incomplete] n. local creolized English, called Bahamian dialect: We Bahamians does
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  • broke down
    [OED break down v.t. to crush or prostrate in strength, health] adj. phr. exhausted: I come home all broke down
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  • broke corn
    [cf. Cam. brok-kɔ:n to harvest (corn) CCD; US dial. South breaking corn taking the ear of corn from the stalk
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