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brain-stabbing

brain-stabbing adjective: causing a sharply painful headache.

Adjective

brain-stabbing (comparative more brain-stabbing, superlative most brain-stabbing)

  1. (informal) Causing a sharply painful headache.
    • The sky was gray and dead. Great! he thought. Another day stuck in this boarded-up rat hole! He slammed the door viciously, then winced, groaning, at the brain-stabbing noise.1999, Leonard Wolf, Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction, page 183
    • […] it's particularly strong (up to 12% alcohol by volume), but what does this complex, distinctive monk mix mean to you and me? For starters, you can get the same brain-stabbing hangover you get from malt liquor at nearly three times the price.2004, Ray James, The Man Show on Tap: A Guide to All Things Beer

Forms of brain-stabbing

comparativemore brain-stabbing
superlativemost brain-stabbing

Questions about brain-stabbing

What does brain-stabbing mean?
Brain-stabbing means causing a sharply painful headache.
What part of speech is brain-stabbing?
Brain-stabbing is an adjective.

Words near brain-stabbing in the dictionary

  1. brain-picking
  2. brain-rot
  3. brain-rotted
  4. brain-scanner
  5. brain-scanners
  6. brain-stabbing
  7. brain-storm
  8. brain-stormed
  9. brain-storming
  10. brain-storms
  11. brain-tape

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