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brain fart
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Definition of brain fart
chiefly US, informal
: a mental lapse : brain cramp … she stumbled over remembering when Sam was born and even had a brief brain fart where she forgot his name. — Crushable, 26 Sept. 2012
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First Known Use of brain fart
1994
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