Meaning of brain freeze | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold; a cold-stimulus headache.
   informal, uncountable, usually
2. Failure to remember something, with the sense that recall is imminent.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“I apologize for giving you another name⟳ a moment ago, that was a brain freeze⟳ on my part.”

“I call⟳ it a brain freeze⟳ at this age, but whenever you have⟳ some kind of a problem remembering something, you think⟳, oh, you know⟳, you automatically think⟳ about Alzheimer’s.”

“Call⟳ it a brain freeze⟳, another 'Aleppo moment,' or a mere campaign stumble, but Gary Johnson has stumbled again in his quixotic presidential campaign.”

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