hot flash
Americannoun
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hot flashes
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of hot flash
First recorded in 1905–10
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But Cattrall isn't dumb – she knows what everyone really wants to talk about is her pop into the second season finale of Carrie Bradshaw's hot flash chronicles.
From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2023
I’m feeling a hot flash coming on from the stress, so I blurt out a dairy warning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
One night this fall, locked together in the bathroom, the battle of wills over changing soiled undergarments exploded just as Ryder broke into the sweat of a hot flash.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
My first hot flash hit inside the San Fernando Cathedral in San Antonio, where I’d traveled from Wisconsin to see the crypt of Davy Crockett.
From Slate ● May 16, 2020
He’d been unprepared for his first hot flash, in the late fall of 2007.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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