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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A headache resulting from the rapid consumption of cold food or beverages.
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- noun informal An unpleasant sensation or
ache in thehead experienced when biting into something extremelycold .
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ramsler commented on the word brain freeze
Sensation experienced in upper head after ingesting a sufficiently large quantity of very cold food, esp. ice cream, or chilled beverage.
November 20, 2009