What Does This Mean?
The name fans of the TV series Firefly (2002) call themselves. It comes from the brown coats worn by soldiers of the Independents in the show's Unification War, the side its heroes Mal and Zoe fought on.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""She showed up to the convention in a brown coat and called herself a proud Browncoat.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wiktionary lists Browncoat as fandom slang for a Firefly fan, from the brown coats worn as uniforms in the series. Wikipedia's Firefly article uses Browncoat for the Independent army and describes the 2002 fan postcard campaign that followed low ratings and the 2005 film Serenity. Who first applied the word to fans is not documented in the pages opened.
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