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brain farm

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

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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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • [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, slaves to the intelligence of those who they call bosses, the few owners of the earth.
  • 1995, Sailor Moon, Episode 5, “Computer School Blues” https://web.archive.org/web/20021118193404/http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/5976/transcripts/smcc005.txt — I heard some new girl has transferred here, and she's a total brainiac. — Yeah, she's from Brighton Academy. — The brain farm?

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