Meanings
brown bomber1
plural brown bombers
- AustraliaslangA parking officer, employed to issue parking tickets (i.e. fines) to vehicles parked illegally or for longer than the permitted time.
1971, John O'Grady, Dealing with Cops, from Aussie Etiket. Quoted in Aussie Humour, Macmillan, 1988, →ISBN, page 200. There is another kind called 'brown bombers'. They are very interested in parked cars. They put chalk marks on tyres and leave little notes, in envelopes, under windscreen wipers.
Synonyms: grey ghost
brown bomber2
brown bomber3
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA parking officer, employed to issue parking tickets (i.e. fines) to vehicles parked illegally or for longer than the permitted time.
Origin
Refers to the colour of parking inspector uniforms worn for several decades in Sydney, Australia and other major cities.
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