Usually means: Strength, especially muscular physical power.
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  1. brawn: Merriam-Webster
  2. brawn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brawn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brawn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brawn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brawn, brawn: Wordnik
  7. brawn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Brawn, brawn: Wiktionary
  9. brawn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brawn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brawn: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brawn, brawn: Dictionary.com
  13. brawn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. brawn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Brawn (The Batman), Brawn (Transformers), Brawn (disambiguation), Brawn (surname), Brawn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Brawn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. brawn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. brawn: Rhymezone
  19. Brawn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. brawn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Brawn: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. brawn: FreeDictionary.org
  23. brawn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. brawn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. brawn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. brawn: Legal dictionary

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  1. brawn: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brawn: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brawn: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See brawning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
noun:  Physical strength; muscularity.
noun:  (chiefly British) Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.
noun:  (UK, dialectal) A boar.
verb:  (transitive) Make fat, especially of a boar.
verb:  (intransitive) Become fat, especially of a boar.
noun:  A surname.

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