Brindle
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A brownish or tawny colour of animal fur, with streaks of other colour.
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(verb) To [finish] eating ones [packed lunch] before [midday].
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When you’re left with extremely bad [hickeys] after [getting off] with a guy that you can’t [go out] in public.
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For use in marijuana terms , to hold a joint so long it extinguishes itself
Also used to call a person a [brindle] , the annoying person that hot boxes the joint or holds it so long it goes out
As a real name , are you serious ? Your name is brindle did your parents not know what urban dictionary was
In [pit Bulls], a pattern that resembles [tiger stripes] -
Used during [surreal] moments of a [drinking] [binge]
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[The act] of [robbing] a person or a [place].
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having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
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A streaky colouration in animals.
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Brindle is a coat coloring pattern in animals, particularly dogs, cattle, guinea pigs, cats, and, rarely, horses. It is sometimes described as tiger-striped, although the brindle pattern is more subtle than that of a tigers coat.
Brindle typically appears as black stripes on a red base. The stripes are eumelanin (black/brown pigment) and the base is phaeomelanin (red/yellow pigment), so the appearance of those pigments can be changed by any of the genes which usually affect them.Eumelanin (the pigment making up the stripes) can be affected by: merle (and harlequin), liver, dilution, greying, and recessive red.
Phaeomelanin (the pigment making up the base) can be affected by: Intensity locus.And of course, white markings and ticking can occur on any brindle dog.
Brindle is caused by a complex gene process and is technically a form of mosaicism, where some cells express one allele (KB) and other cells express a different allele (ky), a little like tortoiseshell cats. This makes it very difficult to test for, and there are currently no commercially available tests that are able to detect brindle. Brindle dogs will usually test as KBky, and carriers (one dominant black allele, one brindle) cannot be identified without breeding. -
the state of being brindled
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An animal so coloured.
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