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noun

Fad n.

A hobby; freak; whim. "It is your favorite fad to draw plans."

A practise followed enthusiastically by a number of people for a limited period of time; as, the latest fad in fashion.

Synonyms: craze; mania.

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Etymology of 'Fad'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fad" Quotes from Famous Books

... different to-day, since Socialism has become a fad. It no longer demands any special energy, or any break with capitalist society to assume the name of Socialist. It is no wonder, then, that more and more these new Socialists remain entangled in their previous manner of ...

— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling

... couldn't afford to fail, though, at any point. The fad that fails is extinguished forever. Will these simple facts do for fiction? Or is it for somebody in real life you're asking, ...

— Widger's Quotations from the Works of William Dean Howells • David Widger

... only scarlet one I possess, and just at present I've a wild fad for scarlet. I get crazes for various colors. Last term I'd look at nothing but pale blue, till Bertha Ford got that new blue chiffon dress, and that, of course, set me against it forevermore. I'd a rage for tartan once, only Jess was rather nasty about it; she thinks no one ...

— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil

... strange and clever girl. Yes, she has been engaged more than once. But the engagements are always broken off. Violet was always in love with herself. But very clever, as I said before. At one time she bade fair to become quite a famous artist, and she has had stories in the magazines. Her last fad was the stage and that has lasted quite a long time. In fact she ...

— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White

... experiment, radical at best, has failed more than once. The style of this essay is slightly wanting in ease and continuity, yet possesses the elements of force. "The Traitor", by Agnes E. Fairfield, is a short story of artistic development but questionable sentiment. The present fad of peace-preaching should not be allowed to influence a writer of sense into glorifying a socialistic, unpatriotic fanatic who refuses to uphold the institutions that his fathers before him created with their toil, blood, and sacrifice. It is not the right of the individual to judge of the ...

— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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