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brainpan

[breyn-pan]
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noun
  1. the skull or cranium.

Origin of brainpan

before 1000; Middle English brayn panne, Old English brægenpanne. See brain, pan1
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Examples from the Web for brainpan

Historical Examples

  • What in the name of Heaven has put such ideas into your brainpan?

    The Weird of the Wentworths, Vol. 1

    Johannes Scotus

  • The post mortem found out that Gustave had died from a rush of words to his brainpan.

British Dictionary definitions for brainpan

brainpan

noun
  1. informal the skull
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