Idiom

Brown out

What does "Brown out" mean?

1. A partial failure of the electricity supply. 2. The exposing of one's buttocks in public.

Brown out

Australia.

1. A partial failure of the electricity supply. 2. The exposing of one's buttocks in public.

Common in Australia, but used elsewhere too.

  • 1. After the lightning struck there was a puff of smoke and everything went dim. Looks like a brown out.