hot flash

American  

noun

1. a sudden, temporary sensation of heat experienced by some women during menopause.

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Etymology

Origin of hot flash

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

In a 2020 episode of her podcast, Michelle Obama described a hot flash she experienced on Marine One as being “like somebody put a furnace in my core and turned it on high.”

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 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

It came to me one day, like a hot flash, almost.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2018

He’d been unprepared for his first hot flash, in the late fall of 2007.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis