hot flash
Americannoun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of hot flash
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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A few months after I started taking Lupron, I went bowling with my family and had a severe hot flash.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2025
I watched as Drew Barrymore had her first perimenopausal hot flash on-air with Jennifer Aniston, and I listened intently to Maria Shriver talk about the correlation between anxiety and menopause.
From Salon ● May 21, 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
She immediately feels “a hot flash of embarrassment,” followed by shame: “I hate that there’s a part of me that doesn’t want to be seen talking to Kath and Ingrid.”
From New York Times ● May 6, 2022
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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