noun
- plural of brainpan; the skulls or craniums containing the brain
Usage: informal
Examples
- The archaeologist carefully examined the ancient brainpans found at the dig site.
- The medical students studied the different shapes of human brainpans.
- He joked that their brainpans must be empty if they believed that story.
- The paleontologist compared the brainpans of different hominid species.
- She knocked their brainpans together when they wouldn’t stop arguing.