A strike with the hand, usually the palm, against the back of someone's head. It is used to get the attention of the victim, especially for disciplinary purposes.
When properly executed, a brain duster causes no damage and little to no lasting pain, but does immediately capture the target's attention.
> The boy was throwing a tantrum in the middle of the grocery store, so his mother gave him a brain duster and told him to behave.

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学英语单词
absorption spectroanalysis
An Binh
at the pump
Bedelē
bill of loading
buddy team (system)
character positioning
charge temperature
cheneau
circumferential measurements
Cissampelopsis corifolia
computer system failure
Contra Costa County
cosequence
dataswitching
decomposition water
dedolomitisations
depositional fabric
Dushai
eight-hour day
emotional buying motives
emotional tone
ex-trotskyist
exhaustion shock
Ficus subulata
financial law
foscari
gallon oil can
Ganane
gas examination
gastrodisk
giraffe unicycle
has nothing to do with
have something out
hemostatics
heuristic search
high and mighty
high hydraulic valve
hollande
hydraulic servo actuator
hyperbox
indoor tennis court
industrial waste treatment
inosilicate
intergrapes
intializtion applets
ITU-TSS
jack planes
jelly filled capacitor
Kangaslampi
karst collapse column
lazariss
leatherjacket
Lithocarpus synbalanos
magna assisa eligenda
magnetic meridian plate
Masud
method of steepest descent
metrophlebitis
myoelastic fiber
nasopharynioma
non-selective pitch propeller
noninclusion
Onor, Gora
optical frequency converter
parametric phase-locked oscillator
pasques
phex
production of shaft kiln for unit cross section
pulmonic sounds
R&B
radio-frequency communication
rate of weapons innovation
re-embrittlement
reference body
rhaphuma testaceiceps
richmond
sailing orders
seriah
shalaporia
shiplines
skin actinomycosis
Smyshlyayevka
square coarse file
status statistics
sulci palatini
superior colliculi
syndrome of exuberance of lung heat
Syntrichia
systemtransposition
Tengolan, I.
the service
trett
ultracryotomy
underlying trust
urogenital pore
valenciennea sexguttata
vehicle maintenance and repair network
viatical settlement
Zeph.
zoogenetic infection
Zoquean