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someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

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  • This brainiac is driving with his left foot extended out the driver’s side window and is resting his ankle on the side mirror.
  • The idea of Gore as a brainiac is a joke.
  • KING: They're also bringing in, I understand, another show from England, with brighter questions, a kind of brainiac show.
  • Ware, who looks like Frasier Crane, only with an even bigger "brainiac" forehead, has a devastating line in self-deprecation.
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