Usually means: Informal lunch meeting or seminar.
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  1. brown-bag: Merriam-Webster
  2. brown bag: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brown-bag: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brown bag: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brown-bag: Wordnik
  6. brown-bag: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. brown-bag: Wiktionary
  8. brown-bag, brown bag: Dictionary.com
  9. brown bag: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. brown-bag: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. brown-bag: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. brown bag: Wiktionary
  13. brown-bag: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  14. brown-bag: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  15. brown bag: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. brown-bag: Idioms

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  1. Brown Bag: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (brown bag)

noun:  A brown paper bag.
noun:  (idiomatic) A short presentation or seminar on a given subject, especially one given at lunchtime.
verb:  To carry one's packed lunch from home, either literally or figuratively in a brown paper bag or a lunchbox, rather than purchase it from a cafeteria or restaurant.
verb:  To consume alcohol in public from the bottle or can, while it is held concealed inside a brown paper bag, so as to avoid attention e.g. from the police.
verb:  (agriculture) To plant seed saved from one's own harvest, as opposed to buying new seed from a seed company.

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