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Definition of noggin
1 : a small mug or cup
2 : a small quantity (such as a gill) of drink
3 : a person's head
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Examples of noggin in a Sentence
He fell and got a bump on his noggin.
watch the lintel above the door, unless you want to bang your noggin
Recent Examples of noggin from the Web
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Mr. Met — with his wide, perpetual grin; his aw-shucks demeanor; and a noggin that would never fit on the 7 train — hardly seems like a native New Yorker.
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Knock this one around in the ol' noggin for a while, and once you figure it out, feel free to check out the solution here.
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At roughly 6 feet tall, with broad shoulders and a substantial noggin reminiscent of late-empire Roman statuary, Hannity, 55, is a sporty guy.
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Wherever the Rock is, there goes that gorgeous bowling ball of a noggin.
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But distinct differences among noses abound, from the length of your noggin to the width of your nostrils.
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Future studies may reveal even more about the potential link between this ancient brain and the noggins of modern animals, including 3-D scans that directly compare the dinosaur’s brain structure to that of bird and crocodilian brains.
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Delgado's relatively coarse stunts were a long way from Persinger's quest for the God spot, but Persinger is not the first to theorize that the Creator exists only in the complex landscape of the human noggin.
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: a person's head Lefty Lewis rubbed his hand over my head and said, “Look at this noggin …” — Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
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