fad Definition
fad (fad)
noun
a custom, style, etc. that many people are interested in for a short time; passing fashion; craze
Etymology: 19th c. < Brit Midland dial.
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fad
n.
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fad Usage Examples
Converse of object
- pass: For me, social enterprises are not a passing fad.
- become: Neither do they want ebook readers to become the next thieves fad, like mobile phones.
- follow: Don't just follow the fad for the latest trendy trainers for example.
- start: I won't try to start new fads or fashions.
- have: He who has a fad never finds time hanging heavy on his hands.
Preposition: in
hope: Movie studios have a habit of milking fads in the hope that what worked well in one movie will do equally well in another.
Adjective modifier
- nationwide: Nationwide fad that the event through forum bringing readers million by.
- fashionable: Are today's environmental concerns really a big deal or just fashionable fads?
- dietary: In those days, before health scares and dietary fads, milk and milk shakes were the trendy drinks.
- late: They want to be with the latest fad or fashion.
- current: What do you feel about the current minimal fad then?
- musical: Whilst others have gone for whatever musical fad there may be fashionable at the time, PY has just done his own thing.
Modifies a noun
- diet: Work out the myths behind the current fad diets, do they work?
- book: Something to also notice, however, is that none of these fad diet books are written by anyone with a degree in nutrition.
Noun used with modifier
- diet: But we don't have to turn to surgeons or to the latest diet fad to get the body we've always wanted.
- fashion: The scent, packaging design, and superb quality has eschewed fashion fads through the decades to arise as a veritable legend among fragrances.
- food: A number of people go through food fads, or go on diets.
- management: ITIL is not a management fad - here today, gone tomorrow.
- quick-fix: Send this article to a friend Forget those quick-fix fad diets!
- music: EB: I don't get into music fads.

