Define: brain freeze

[smoogatz]

My wife and I are trying to figure out if this is a common term, or if we made it up. So, do you know what a brain freeze is? If so, please define.

[Lyric]

1. A.K.A. "ice cream headache"

It's the awful, temporary headache that you get when you eat or drink something cold too fast.

[Gormy Cuss]

4. yep, that's how I would define it too. n/t

[GirlinContempt]

2. 7-11 uses the term

for drinking a slurpee too fast and getting a head ache.

[Haole Girl]

3. Here's a link:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/314/7091/1364

Yeah... I'm bored.

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

5. When a thinking mind encounters a thought terminating cliché

It is the mental equivalent of an improvised explosive device.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. No, you did not make it up.

As above, it's another phase for an ice cream headache.

[Redstone]

7. I think it's a common term, but the definition thereof differs based upon

the user thereof.

What does it mean to you and Mrs Smoogatz? To Mrs R and me, it means any transitive lockup of congnitive function, such as: "Goddammit, I can't think of that word..."

This could be an interesting duscussion.

Redstone

[smoogatz]

8. I don't want to prejudice the discussion by giving our definition.

But it's been mentioned in the thread already, so it's not just some idiosyncratic thing we invented. Which is good.

[Redstone]

9. Gotcha.

Our usage differs from the mainstream, and yours does not.

Redstone