Meaning

1 senses
  1. (derogatory, informal)An unintelligent person.

Origin

From brain + dead. Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical cont

From brain + dead. Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical context of the Sixties counterculture and life extension technology of the late twentieth century.

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