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fad English

Meaning fad meaning

What does fad mean?
Definitions in simple English

fad

A fad is a brief but popular trend or interest. Hula hoops were a fad in the 1950s.

fad

(= rage) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal he always follows the latest fads it was all the rage that season

Synonyms fad synonyms

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Topics fad topics

What do people use fad to talk about?
  • What words refer to something that is fashionable for a short time?

Examples fad examples

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Simple sentences

It's a fad.
It's just a fad.
Tom is following a fad diet.

Movie subtitles

A passing fad, I'm sure.
It's a little fad of mine.
It's probably some new fad.
I was under the impression that these uncomfortable little cars were just a fad.
What is it, some new American fad?
I would never tell them this, but this is a. this is a fad.
Neurosurgery is not a fad, and it's not hopeless.
It seems you started a fad, my dear. when you claimed that you saw a man with a crimson hood.
The guy's a fad, like Hula-Hoops.
Oh, I'm a fucking fad?
Discard one fad and just embrace another.
You haven't succumbed to this fad of dressing up like half an allotment in Nottingham Forest.
Sure boss. It's the latest fad.
Perhaps this energy conservation fad is as dead as the dodo.
Do you understand? It's a little fad of mine.
Get outta here! The guy's a fad, like Hula-Hoops.
You have no idea how many gigolos I've had to pay off, how many cops I've had to bribe. how many times I've had to repurchase all her earthly possessions. from fad religious groups.
I thought you were just a passing fad with Clint.
A momentary fad.
It was a kind of fad in the late 20th century.
Actually, the process of cryonics was never more than a fad. It did not continue beyond the mid-21st century.
It was quite the fad.
They were a fad with the nobility.
It's a fad. Next week, we won't know it existed.
It's a new fad - caviar and popcorn.
It's the fad nowadays to plant bombs on planes or trains to blow them up.
That's a fad with our young people now, they're collecting.
Big deal you've got a crop. I'm only doing my job too! What crop? lt's a fad.
No fad diets.
It's just a fad.
Coming up next, a new fad that's sweeping the nation-- wasting food.
It's a fad.
Obnoxious fad?
Get me Johnny Dean, Liz Butsky, and the Fad King.

News and current affairs

Shareholder value was dismissed as a fad and a fraud.
Does this new emphasis on happiness represent a shift or just a passing fad?
And a flat 2011 performance in some Latin American and Asian equity markets - following tremendous runs in 2010 - has taken a bit of sheen off the emerging-market investment fad.
The most likely cause of the autism epidemic is that autism has become fashionable - a popular fad diagnosis.
Similar policies will produce different market reactions depending on the prevailing story, or fad of the moment.