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brainteaser

US/ˈbɹeɪnˌtizɚ/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Other forms: brainteasers

A brainteaser is a puzzle set purely to make you think. A fiendish brainteaser.

It has one answer and the pleasure is in finding it rather than in any use. A brainteaser that turns on a trick of wording annoys everybody who solves it.

The original uploader was Oskar Sigvardsson at English Wikipedia. · Public domain

Definitions of brainteaser

  1. 1nounbrainteaserA puzzle set purely to make you think.B2

    “The brainteaser at the back of the paper took him three days.”

brainteaser is a puzzle.

Where it comes from

Brain plus teaser, from tease in the sense of pulling apart.

From brain + teaser.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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