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brainpan

[ breyn-pan ]

noun

  1. the skull or cranium.


brainpan

/ ˈɪˌæ /

noun

  1. informal.
    the skull
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of brainpan1

before 1000; Middle English brayn panne, Old English æԱ貹ԲԱ. See brain, pan 1
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The Jewish children’s charity has burrowed into the national brainpan for more than 10 years and attracted government scrutiny for its charitable disbursements.

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“Ignorance” is gray and confined within a cage, “Shame” is purple with nails pounded into its squashed brainpan, and “The Subconscious” is covered in gold leaf and recessed into a blue rectangle.

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To our right, an emaciated mummy of a man guzzled ruby-red punch out of what eerily resembled a human brainpan.

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At the brink of a crisis, he navigates a feudalistic world with an evil emperor, noble houses and subjugated peoples, a tale right out of mythology and right at home in George Lucas’s brainpan.

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And he never learns: He never becomes more measured or more "presidential," never stops blurting out whatever random, angry thought flashes across his brainpan.

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