brainpan

noun brain·pan \ ˈbrān-ˌpan \

Definition of brainpan

: braincase

Recent Examples of brainpan from the Web

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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