0 a sharp pain in the front or at the side of the head that people sometimes feel when they are somewhere very cold or when they have eaten something cold
1 an occasion when someone cannot think clearly, or cannot remember something:
Gary takes it but drinks it too fast and gets brain freeze.
Research suggests that the same vascular mechanism and nerve implicated in brain freeze cause the aura (sensory disturbance) and pulsatile (throbbing pain) phases of migraines.
She falls victim to brain freeze and turns into an ice cube.
The reasoning behind this is to avoid brain freeze which is likely to occur when there are hundreds of tasks.
She remarks she must have had a brain freeze.
Refers to the experience of brain freeze, a headache felt after eating frozen desserts and iced drinks too quickly.
