skullskull /skʌl/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
the bones of a person’s or animal’s head2somebody can’t get it into their (thick) skull spoken someone is unable to understand something very simple: 
He can’t seem to get it into his skull that I’m just not interested in him.
WORD ORIGINskull
Origin:
1200-1300 From a Scandinavian languageEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Firstly, it is reflected and given direction by the cut-away skull bone, acting as a parabolic reflector.
- He cuts up bleached gourds to be the skulls.
- He said post mortems showed Mrs Garvey had died from head injuries, including multiple fractures to the skull.
- His bony skull and his sharp beak jutted out of the robe at such a low angle he looked like a buzzard.
- The skull smashed, apparently by a heavy mallet which Lorrimer had been examining.
- The superman testing himself with an ax, crushing the skulls of old women.
- They are classified according to the number of openings in the skull.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES She suffered a fractured skull in the accident. What could I say that would penetrate his thick skull?COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1 She suffered a fractured skull in the accident. What could I say that would penetrate his thick skull?· Mr Healy died later in a Dublin hospital from bleed of the brain and a fractured skull.· Pathologist Mustansir Nurbhai said Mr Thompson died of extensive cerebral haemorrhage due to a fractured skull.· I suspect she has a fractured skull and her cheekbone is also broken.· He is thought to have a fractured skull and is drifting in and out of consciousness.· He had emergency surgery on his fractured skull but died 12 hours later from brain injuries.· He suffered brain damage caused by a fractured skull and died later in Middlesbrough General hospital.
· There are few exceptions where human skulls have been found in wells and which could suggest violence at a later period.· Moses has seen visions that no human skull could hold; hence, his budding, fragile horns.· A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor, and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner.· There was also a stuffed fox and a human skull.· The device is so sensitive it can pin point a human skull buried three metres underground.· Above the altar, however, in place of the religious painting in Dubois's house, was a chillingly small human skull.· Those rows of human skulls may well be evidence of that brutalising process.· One whole shelf was devoted to the human skull.
· Damn his thick skull: she should have splashed his brains across the wall.· Let him do six months or a year, to get it through his thick skull that he done wrong.· Orcs have large heads with huge jaws but tiny foreheads behind which lurk a thick skull and not very much brain.· Neither you nor they seem to be able to get this obvious point through your thick skulls.· In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.· Maybe that had even penetrated his thick skull.· She couldn't get it into her thick skull that being gay just happens.· You'd better get that through your thick skull!
NOUN· His close-cropped hair was hidden under a black velvet skull cap.· It is a Walkman-sized device wired to a skull cap that monitors brain waves.· The boys had to be coaxed into blazers and skull caps.· The pale woman, bosom exposed, is entwined with a dark man wearing a sullen expression and a skull cap.· I recognized the neat plastic skull cap.
· Depressed skull fracture, uneven pupils, ragged reflexes - and more fractures than I care to think about.· Peter Vanezis, a pathologist, told the hearing that the fatal injury was brain haemorrhaging caused by a 15-centimetre skull fracture.· He also agreed he'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose.· The pale, badly bruised face and thin trickle of blood from one ear, suggested a skull fracture too.
VERB· This enabled her to calculate the force that its jaws would need to break the skull of a living animal.· Both legs were broken, my skull was fractured, the radio was demolished.
· You could crack your skull on that intractable stone, or it could scoop out spoonfuls of flesh.· Donlan suffered a cracked skull and his nasal septum was pushed out of place.· He has also cracked his skull and still carries the scar.· If he had smiled a moment sooner Hicks would have cracked his skull.· John Charlton fell heavily, cracking his skull on a kerbstone.· I cracked his skull with a club, and they say it shook his brain loose.· Unfortunately, leaping from my seat in the dugout, I cracked my skull on its roof and the world turned black.
· Mowbray's body crashed against the earth, his brains spattering as the sharp, icy cobbles crushed his skull.· He not only kills her, he crushes her skull and splits her body like a shellfish.· It's so tight it would crush his skull.· The superman testing himself with an ax, crushing the skulls of old women.· He had to summon all his willpower to pass under a bridge because he would experience a crushing pressure on the skull.
· A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head, smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.· They smashed its skull ... and then laid it back where they found it.
· He broke both legs, his jaw, nose, hip and wrist and suffered a fractured skull.· Donlan suffered a cracked skull and his nasal septum was pushed out of place.· He suffered a fractured skull, fractured jaw and cuts to his head and body.
the bones of a person’s or animal’s head2somebody can’t get it into their (thick) skull spoken someone is unable to understand something very simple: He can’t seem to get it into his skull that I’m just not interested in him.