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Olive Drab

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Noun

1. drab, olive drab

a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

2. olive drab, olive-drab uniform

military uniform of the United States Army; made from cloth of a dull olive color

3. olive drab

a cloth of an olive-brown color used for military uniforms

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Olive Drab

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noun US
1. 
a. 
a dull but fairly strong greyish-olive colour
b. 
(as adjective)
an olive-drab jacket
2. 
cloth or clothes in this colour, esp the uniform of the US Army
. Abbreviation: OD
adjective
US
of a dull but fairly strong greyish-olive colour
He wore an olive-drab shirt and army pants.
soldiers dressed in olive-drab uniform

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Olive Drab

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1. 
any of various shades of greenish brown, much used as a camouflage color in the armed forces
2. 
woolen cloth dyed this color and used for uniforms by the U.S. Army
3.  [pl.]
a uniform of this cloth

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Olive Drab

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n.
1. A grayish olive to dark olive brown or olive gray.
2.
a. Cloth of this color, often used in military uniforms.
b. also olive drabs A uniform made from cloth of this color.

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