brown belt
noun Martial Arts.
a brown cloth waistband conferred upon a participant in one of the martial arts, as judo or karate, to indicate an intermediate rank.
a person who has attained this rank.
the rank itself.Compare black belt(def 3), white belt.
Origin of brown belt
First recorded in 1965–70
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