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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