1an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating centre of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity: [as modifier]:a brain tumour
(brains) the substance of an animal’s brain used as food.
informal an electronic device with functions comparable to those of the human brain:an electronic brain
2intellectual capacity:I didn’t have enough brains for the sciences [mass noun]:success requires brain as well as brawn
(the brains) informal a clever person who supplies the ideas and plans for a group of people:Tom was the brains of the outfit
a person’s mind:a tiny alarm bell began to ring in her brain
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hit (someone) hard on the head with an object:she brained me with a rolling pin
have (got) something on the brain
informal be obsessed with something:John has cars on the brain
