hot flash

• hotflash, hot-flash

hot flash (plural hot flashes)

1. (US, Canada) Synonym of hot flush.
   • 2007 August 9, Kathy Hogan Trocheck, "Don't Know Jack about Jane", Mary Kate Andrews:

     Wooh! I am getting positively warm thinking about that. Oh, wait. Maybe it's a hot flash. Or the fact that it's ninety-leven degrees in my corner of Atlanta.