NOUN
- a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
- a cloth of an olive-brown color used for military uniforms
- military uniform of the United States Army; made from cloth of a dull olive color
How To Use olive drab In A Sentence
- Rockets of early manufacture are painted battleship gray or dark green; later rockets are olive drab.
- Her eyebrows were plucked flat, canopying small, olive drab, porcine eyes rimmed with red. Over the Edge
- Each footstep raised a small cloud of dusty ochre Virginia clay, turning the olive drab of my fatigues a rusty red.
- Each footstep raised a small cloud of dusty ochre Virginia clay, turning the olive drab of my fatigues a rusty red.
- After the gate guards cleared us, the bus turned into a sideroad that wound down off the main road and ended up entering a big driveway that wound up a hill, passed a very military-looking building, painted white-flesh white with olive drab trimmings all topped with a steeple with a cross on top; Jesus, a church right here in the middle of this army base. Kill or Be Killed
- The planes were parked on the ramp and given a coat of Olive Drab camouflage along with period markings.
- Along with olive drab uniforms and combat boots, these could go to everyone upon enlistment.
- You might have thought that wool meant a heavy, cumbersome, musty olive drab green blanket.
- Oh, and don't forget heartburn suffered by many when an Army battle dress uniform was pressed upon us in exchange for the old olive drabs.
- Foliage green is more gray than green its more "spearmint". ranger green is more O. D "olive drab". Army Rumour Service