brain freeze

Definitions

1. 1

   A pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold

   A pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold; a cold-stimulus headache.

2. 2

   Failure to remember something, with the sense that recall is imminent.

   • 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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