brain freeze
noun
: a sudden shooting pain in the head caused by ingesting very cold food (such as ice cream) or drink
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There also are popular annual festivals going down this month, like the Emmett Cherry Festival, Boise Pride Fest and Meridian Dairy Days, to name a few.
And prepare yourself for a serious brain freeze with the Boise Ice Cream Festival, which offers more than two weeks of sweet events.
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Michelle Jenkins, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
No doubt, Nikki Haley’s brain freeze in failing to mention slavery when asked what caused the Civil War harms her quest to be the Republican presidential nominee.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Jan. 2024
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The poor patient in Operation sure has a lot of ailments: writer's cramp, water on the knee, and brain freeze are just the start.
—Julianne Hilmes Bartlett, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2022
But jostling through so many bodies after so long made my brain freeze.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
Baltimore had a brain freeze.
—Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
The Major League Eating speed-eating record for guzzling a 22-ounce Slurpee at 7-Eleven is 9 seconds, held by Patrick Bertoletti, who immediately thereafter suffered sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, more commonly called brain freeze or an ice cream headache.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
Colder than a brain freeze.
—Lacey Vorrasi-Banis, EW.com, 22 June 2021
Experiencing brain freeze?
—Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 11 Dec. 2020
Michelle Jenkins, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
No doubt, Nikki Haley’s brain freeze in failing to mention slavery when asked what caused the Civil War harms her quest to be the Republican presidential nominee.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Jan. 2024
Operation Available at Amazon, Target, Walmart, and Barnes & Noble
The poor patient in Operation sure has a lot of ailments: writer's cramp, water on the knee, and brain freeze are just the start.
—Julianne Hilmes Bartlett, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2022
But jostling through so many bodies after so long made my brain freeze.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
Baltimore had a brain freeze.
—Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2021
The Major League Eating speed-eating record for guzzling a 22-ounce Slurpee at 7-Eleven is 9 seconds, held by Patrick Bertoletti, who immediately thereafter suffered sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia, more commonly called brain freeze or an ice cream headache.
—Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
Colder than a brain freeze.
—Lacey Vorrasi-Banis, EW.com, 22 June 2021
Experiencing brain freeze?
—Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 11 Dec. 2020
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“Brain freeze.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brain%20freeze. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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