noggin

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Then she opens an upper cabinet and is pummeled in the noggin by an avalanche of unmatched Tupperware – someone else’s task left for her to do.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024

As with any experimental animal, from a mouse to a monkey, the answers may hold clues about the contents of more complex creatures’ noggin, including what resides in the neural circuitry of our own head.

From Scientific American • Aug. 21, 2023

But they at least feel great on your noggin’.

From The Verge • Aug. 8, 2022

I feel his eyes take in the spectacle of me lumbering through a Rite Aid parking lot with my knitwear-shrouded noggin held high, and I hear his distinct voice in the exclamations of “turkey man.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2021

A crazy idea sprang fully formed from Annabeth’s mind, like her mom jumping out of Zeus’s noggin.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan