Definitions

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  • noun informal A very intelligent person.
  • noun informal The head or skull (which encloses the brain).

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Examples

  • Jan Moir, commentator for the Daily Mail, finds the whole spectacle disgusting, but praised the courage of "brainbox" Durantez, also known as Mrs Clegg. "

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Jan Moir, commentator for the Daily Mail, finds the whole spectacle disgusting, but praised the courage of "brainbox" Durantez, also known as Mrs Clegg. "

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Jan Moir, commentator for the Daily Mail, finds the whole spectacle disgusting, but praised the courage of "brainbox" Durantez, also known as Mrs Clegg. "

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Jan Moir, commentator for the Daily Mail, finds the whole spectacle disgusting, but praised the courage of "brainbox" Durantez, also known as Mrs Clegg. "

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Jan Moir, commentator for the Daily Mail, finds the whole spectacle disgusting, but praised the courage of "brainbox" Durantez, also known as Mrs Clegg. "

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The BBC's gently teasing brainbox Evan Davis asked minister David Willetts whether the plan amounted to the hope that all government policies would work well.

    Social mobilty: hopes and dreams | Editorial 2011

  • A spokesman for David Cameron said that the brunette brainbox was taking time out of her hectic schedule of advertising crappy loan companies to head up a new task force looking at how Government financial policy should work in a post-Recession world.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • A spokesman for David Cameron said that the brunette brainbox was taking time out of her hectic schedule of advertising crappy loan companies to head up a new task force looking at how Government financial policy should work in a post-Recession world.

    Vorderman to Front Tory Numeracy Initiative Dungeekin 2009

  • "Would you care to possibly..." he formulated the words in his brainbox.

    Maybe Maybe brian warfield 2011

  • Klaus Schwab:The director/founder/brainbox of the World Economic Forum. 15 minutes.

    Putting it into perspective Daniel Joshua Cullum 2011

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  • super smart person

    April 7, 2009