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brainpan

noun
brain·​pan | \ ˈbrān-ˌpan How to pronounce brainpan (audio) \

Definition of brainpan

: braincase

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 Instead, these books feature a new kind of mutant—wonky business writers endowed with bulging brainpans and killer neologisms. — Jennifer Alsever, WIRED, "The Rise of the Corporate Superhero," 29 Mar. 2011 Despite 420’s recent codification as a street moniker for marijuana and the ominous specter of four and twenty blackbirds flocking from pies, April 20 had slipped as an infamous date in the public brainpan. — Mark Jacobson, Daily Intelligencer, "The Generation Gap in My Living Room," 30 June 2017

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before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

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brainpan

noun
brain·​pan | \ ˈbrān-ˌpan How to pronounce brainpan (audio) \

Medical Definition of brainpan

: braincase

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