brown belt

brown belt
1. a brown cloth waistband conferred upon a participant in one of the martial arts, as judo or karate, to indicate an intermediate rank.
2. a person who has attained this rank.
3. the rank itself. Cf. black belt (def. 3), white belt.
[1965-70]

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