"brain freeze" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-brain freeze.wav Forms: brain freezes [plural]
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  1. (informal) A pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold; a cold-stimulus headache. Tags: informal, uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Pain Synonyms (pain in the head): ice cream headache Translations (pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold): Hirnfrost [masculine] (German), Kältekopfschmerz [masculine] (German)
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  2. (psychology) Failure to remember something, with the sense that recall is imminent. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Psychology Synonyms (failure to remember): tip of the tongue, presque vu
    Sense id: en-brain_freeze-en-noun-Fot0db~f Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 48 52 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 47 53 Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences Disambiguation of 'failure to remember': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (topical): Temperature
Disambiguation of Temperature: 0 0

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