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brain someone

Fig. to strike a person hard on the skull as if to knock out the person's brains. (Often said as a vain threat.) I thought he was going to brain me, but he only hit me on the shoulder. If you don't do it, I'll brain you.

brain

1. n. a good student; a very intelligent person. (see also brains.) I’m no brain, but I get good grades.

2. tv. to hit someone (in the head). I ought to brain you for that!

See:

• a bird-brain
• a brain box
• a brain drain
• a brain trust
• ain't got the brains God gave a squirrel
• all brawn and no brain
• bash (someone's) brains in
• BB brain
• be all brawn and no brain(s)
• be all brawn and no brains
• be brain dead
• be out of brain
• be the brains behind
• beat (someone's) brains in
• beat brains
• beat brains out
• beat one’s brains out
• beat one’s brains out to do something
• beat one's brains out
• beat someone’s brains out
• bird of (one's) own brain
• bird-brain
• blow brains out
• blow one's brains out
• blow someone’s brains out
• bored out of (one's) brains
• brack-brain
• brain
• brain box
• brain bucket
• brain candy
• brain cramp
• brain drain
• brain fart
• brain someone
• brain surgeon
• brain surgery
• brain trust
• brain-burned
• brain-dead
• brain-drain
• brain-fried
• brains
• brains out
• brain-teaser
• brain-twister
• cudgel (one's) brains
• feather brain
• fuck (one's) brains out
• get brain
• get brain in gear
• have a moonflaw in the brain
• have brain on a leash
• have on the brain
• have one’s brain on a leash
• have shit for brains
• have something on the brain
• idle brain is the devil's workshop
• lamebrain
• lame-brain
• on one's mind
• on the brain
• out of (one's) brain
• pick brain
• pick brains
• pick someone's brain
• rack brain
• rack brains
• rack one's brain
• the brains behind
• wrack brains