Blacks out for a moment

• Keels over
• Has Beatlemania, perhaps
• Passes out
• Swoons
• Loses consciousness
• Can't handle surprise, perhaps
• Blacks out

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of faint English) 2 The impure spirit that comes over first (the ''strong faints'') and last (the ''weak faints'') in the distillation of whisky, much impregnated with fusel oil.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faints \Faints\, n. pl. The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with ...