brown bread

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brown bread (usually uncountable, plural brown breads)

2. Any bread with a brown colour as contrasted with white, off-white, or other colours.

   Hypernyms: bread < food

   Hyponyms: rye bread, rye, pumpernickel bread, pumpernickel

   Coordinate terms: white bread, white

   Near-synonym: black bread

4. Whole-wheat bread.

   Synonyms: wheat bread, wheat

   Hypernyms: bread < food

   Coordinate terms: white bread, white, rye bread, rye, pumpernickel bread, pumpernickel, black bread

brown bread (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, Cockney rhyming slang) Dead.
   • 2012, Graham Masterton, The Doorkeepers:

     I thought I was ready for the cold cook then. I swear it. I really thought I was brown bread.

• See also Thesaurus:dead