brown-brown

noun

Powdered cocaine or heroin mixed with smokeless gunpowder.

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Meanings

nounbrown-brown (uncountable)
  1. AfricaregionalslanguncountablePowdered cocaine or heroin mixed with smokeless gunpowder.

    In Liberia and Sierra Leone, child soldiers often take a substance called “brown-brown,” a potent mixture of cocaine or heroin with gunpowder.

    2015, Daniel Ness, International Education: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues and Systems
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    Such bartering in exchange for securing routes is not uncommon; the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) fighters in Sierra Leone regularly consumed crack cocaine and brown-brown (heroin) that were transshipped through their territories.

    2009, Paul Rexton Kan, Drugs and Contemporary Warfare, page 53

    Only later in the afternoon, when the rebels ordered the child soldiers to kill did they carve slits into the boys' young temples, pierce holes into their tender veins, and rub cocaine and “brown-brown” heroin into their raw wounds.

    2010, Sarah Culberson, A Princess Found: An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All

    During this time, Aminata was often sent into Freetown to buy drugs—mostly a crude form of heroin (“brown brown”) and some cocaine—to bring back to the fighters.

    2014, Susan Shepler, Childhood Deployed: Remaking Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone
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“brown-brown.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brown-brown. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brown-brown,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brown-brown.

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