Meaning of meatbrain | Babel Free
Definitions
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An unintelligent person. US, colloquial
- A biological brain (as opposed to an artificial or man-made one).
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.'”
“They snorted and shook their heads like⟳ I was a meatbrain.”
“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.”
“The fact that programming languages often resemble⟳ English words like⟳ body or if is a convenient accommodation for our puny human meatbrains, which are much better at remembering commands that look⟳ like⟳ words we already know⟳.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
See also
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