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brain freeze

n. 1 (context informal English) A pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold. 2 (context psychology English) Failure to remember something, with the sense that recall is imminent.

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Brain freeze (disambiguation)

Brain freeze is a common alternate name for ice cream headache.

Brain freeze may also refer to:

  • Brain freeze (psychology), the acute cognitive faltering due to stress
  • Brainfreeze (album), a 1999 live mix album by DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist
  • Brain Freeze, a 2007 book in the Otto Undercover miniseries
  • Brain Freeze, a parody song in The Simpsons' episode That '90s Show
  • "Brain Freeze," the series finale of the show Fanboy and Chum Chum
  • "brain freeze,"a series of videos on Caspar Lee's YouTube channel

Usage examples of "brain freeze".

At seventy degrees and below, the phospholipids in the glia in the brain freeze.

By then he expected to be dead of frustration or boredom or out-and-out brain freeze.

An ache like brain freeze from a frozen drink spread through his head.