code brown

The situation of a person defecting in an undesirable location (e.g. hospital bed or retail store), requiring cleanup.

Noun

  1. The situation of a person defecting in an undesirable location (e.g. hospital bed or retail store), requiring cleanup.
    • I hear the store speaker call for a cleanup crew: "Code brown on Aisle 2 with a possible runaway cart track to 16." - 2005 September 9, Bruce Michaud, “Dog-day misery in Aisle 16”, in North of Tampa, St. Petersburg...

    Coordinate Terms: code yellow

Origin

Probably originally a code used in some hospitals; some hospitals today still use code brown to one or another kind of environmental or hazardous-material emergency.

Forms

code browns

Related

colour code code blue code red number two