- Now that you say that, I kind of remember doing that last night, I must have browned out!
brown out
analogy; verb
To become intoxicated to the point of not remembering one's actions the next day without someone reminding him/her. A less severe form of blacking out. An analogy to an electricity brown out where some, but not all, of the electricity in an area goes out, a less extreme form of a blackout.
Etymology : From brown + out; figurative sense of "loss of memory," brown from Old English brun "dark, dusky;" out from Old English ut "out, without, outside;" meaning "unconscious" is attested from 1898, originally in boxing.
Source : Friends the day after a night of drinking. August 2013.
Last modified: 24 November 2013