Usually means: Strain mentally to remember something.
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  1. cudgel one's brains: Merriam-Webster
  2. cudgel one's brains, cudgel one's brains: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cudgel one's brains: Wiktionary
  4. cudgel one's brains, cudgel ones brains: Dictionary.com
  5. Cudgel Ones Brains: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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▸ verb:  Alternative form of cudgel one's brain [(UK, dated, figuratively) to think hard and try to remember something.]

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