brain freeze
A pain in the head from eating or drinking something coldA pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold; a cold-stimulus headache.
» Have you ever had a brain freeze?
Meaning
2 senses(informal, uncountable, usually)A pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold; a cold-stimulus headache.
Hirnfrost, Kältekopfschmerz
(uncountable, usually)Failure to remember something, with the sense that recall is imminent.
Examples
4 sentencesHave you ever had a brain freeze?
If you eat shaved ice very fast you will get brain freeze.
Tom got a brain freeze after eating his ice cream too fast.
Tom got a brain freeze.
Translations
3 languagesDeutsch
pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold:
Forms
plural: brain freezes| Singular | brain freeze |
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uncountable
Synonyms
3 synonymspain in the head:ice cream headache
failure to remember:presque vutip of the tongue
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable