nog‧gin/ˈnɒɡən, ˈnɒɡɪn $ ˈnɑː-/ noun[COUNTABLE] old-fashioned 1. a small amount of an alcoholic drink
2. informal your head or brain: ▪ Use your noggin(=think).
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The stupid thing hit me right on the noggin. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ If there are any horizontal joints, noggins have to be fixed between the uprights to take the edges of these boards. ▪ They'd all gone to bed the night before when I'd returned from a last noggin with Harry. ▪ Tony tries and with his eyes watering declares it a good noggin. ▪ With a spicy noggin to follow - but just the one! ▪ Yes, curlier even than Derek Johnstone's big dandelion noggin.