Meatbrain
noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 An unintelligent person. US, colloquial
"'Plague take the fists of lust-ridden sailors,' snapped the herbalist in riled temper. Planks scraped as she jammed her door open wider to admit the next client on her threshold. 'If you've brought me the meatbrains who savaged that girl, let me tell you, I'm likely to geld him.'"
- 2 A biological brain (as opposed to an artificial or man-made one).
"Installed on meatbrains whose habituation to computer-mediated activities has made them perilously vulnerable to infection by aggressive memes, the 'Babel' virus corrupts and overwrites the deep structures of human language, thereby 'crashing' the mind, and civilization with it."
Example
More examples"'Plague take the fists of lust-ridden sailors,' snapped the herbalist in riled temper. Planks scraped as she jammed her door open wider to admit the next client on her threshold. 'If you've brought me the meatbrains who savaged that girl, let me tell you, I'm likely to geld him.'"
Etymology
Compound of meat + brain.
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