Usually means: Anxiety-induced sudden perspiration response.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold sweat: Merriam-Webster
  2. cold sweat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cold sweat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cold sweat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cold sweat: Vocabulary.com
  6. cold sweat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cold sweat: Wiktionary
  8. cold sweat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. cold sweat: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cold sweat: Dictionary.com
  11. Cold Sweat (Thin Lizzy song), Cold Sweat (album), Cold Sweat, Cold sweat (disambiguation), Cold sweat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. cold sweat: Rhymezone
  13. cold sweat: FreeDictionary.org
  14. cold sweat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. cold sweat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cold sweat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold sweat: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. cold sweat: Medical dictionary
  3. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See cold_sweating as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cold sweat)

noun:  Perspiration which feels chilly to the person perspiring, and which indicates debilitating illness, shock, or the experiencing of an intense emotion such as despair, anxiety, or, especially, fear.

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