brain farm
brain farm noun: any mass educational system of improving or providing conditions to increase the intellectual quality and yield of a population of (human) brains, e.g. a university or school.
Noun
brain farm (plural brain farms)
- Any mass educational system of improving or providing conditions to increase the intellectual quality and yield of a population of (human) brains, e.g. a university or school.
- [a. 1928] 1960, “Brains,” in Life and Works of Woodbridge N. Ferris, Roy Newton ed. http://www.ferris.edu/library/SpecCollections/WNF/Brains.html
Confidentially, most people have brains, but they are not using them. They have left their own brain farms and gone out into the highways and byways... - — I heard some new girl has transferred here, and she's a total brainiac.
— Yeah, she's from Brighton Academy.
— The brain farm?1995, Sailor Moon, Episode 5, “Computer School Blues” https://web.archive.org/web/20021118193404/http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/5976/transcripts/smcc005.txt
- [a. 1928] 1960, “Brains,” in Life and Works of Woodbridge N. Ferris, Roy Newton ed. http://www.ferris.edu/library/SpecCollections/WNF/Brains.html
Forms of brain farm
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Questions about brain farm
- What does brain farm mean?
- Brain farm means any mass educational system of improving or providing conditions to increase the intellectual quality and yield of a population of (human) brains, e.g. a university or school.
- What part of speech is brain farm?
- Brain farm is a noun.
- What is the plural of brain farm?
- The plural of brain farm is brain farms.
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