hot flash
Americannoun
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
Drew Barrymore has her first hot flash during an interview on her talk show.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023
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
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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