brain freeze


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brain freeze

n. Informal
A headache resulting from the rapid consumption of cold food or beverages.
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JEDDAH: "You can't buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream and that's pretty much the same thing." If that strikes a chord with you, then you will be delighted with Brain Freeze, a food truck that serves floats, soft-serve and ice cream with unique flavors and delicious toppings that will have you returning again and again.
Halawi said, "Brain Freeze uses a beverage like coffee or slush while Sahara contains some form of bread, be it a croissant or chabata bread.
After running five kilometers and conquering 14 obstacles, it is then the runners faced the Brain Freeze where they had to slide from 12 ft height into a pool containing 20 ton of ice cubes.
While this may help us keep cool, it also puts us at greater risk of sphenolopalatine ganglioneuralgia - or brain freeze to you and me!
The tracks are "Dance With Me" (2:14), "Donce with the Science Fair" (2:50), "Washington DC" (3:31), "Granddad Is a Spy" (2:18), "Don't Fear the Dentist" (2:14), "Traffic Jam" (3:30), "Bird on a Wire" (3:33), "Kid of the Week" (2:44), "Brain Freeze" (3:38), and "Bring Your Friends" (3:09).
Addressing timely questions about binge-watching TV, power naps, and brain freeze, their examples are aimed directly at the young adult audience.
But if we are to believe that claim, then we also must believe the Founding Fathers simply conjured up the term natural born citizen out of thin air, then had a collective brain freeze by failing to assign a definition to the term, thereby leaving it unresolved until some unspecified future date.
Christmas brain freeze hits, where the overload means you can't focus on anything.
Emilio Izaguirre's red card against Ajax and Efe Ambrose's brain freeze against Fenerbahce were as responsible for the four dropped points as anything done by the Dutch or the Turks.