hot flash
Americannoun
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hot flashes
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of hot flash
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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It was definitely more than a hot flash.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
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
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
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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