brown belt
Americannoun
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brown belts
plural
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a brown cloth waistband conferred upon a participant in one of the martial arts, as judo or karate, to indicate an intermediate rank.
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a person who has attained this rank.
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the rank itself.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of brown belt
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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A poised taekwondo brown belt who is home-schooled, she had been a competitive speller since age 6, and at 10 she had come to the bee and tied for 51st place.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2022
Born and raised on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, she has degrees in law and theoretical physics, a pilot’s license, and a brown belt from an elite judo institute in Japan.
From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2020
A black belt in judo and brown belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu, the 27-year-old former amateur European and world champion in MMA quickly got over the excitement of being elevated to the main event.
From Reuters ● Feb. 21, 2020
The self-improvement obsessive earned a brown belt in karate, dabbled in Slovak and wrote screenplays before he committed fully to politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2020
He dressed in his church clothes—black pants and a button-down shirt, a brown belt, his cowboy boots—and walked into store after store, asking for applications.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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