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fad

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Scrabble points
7
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7
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/fæd/

Definition of fad

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
    “You're a fad, that means you're something that we've already had, but once you're gone, you don't come back.”
    “The pet rock fad was started by an advertising executive named Gary Dahl. The premise was simple: take ordinary rocks, glue eyes on them, and market them as pets.”
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noun

  1. A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
    “You're a fad, that means you're something that we've already had, but once you're gone, you don't come back.”
    “The pet rock fad was started by an advertising executive named Gary Dahl. The premise was simple: take ordinary rocks, glue eyes on them, and market them as pets.”
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of flavin adenine dinucleotide.

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Etymology

Of English dialectal origin. Further origin obscure. Possibly from Old English ġefæd (“order, decorum”) (compare Old English ġefæd (“orderly, tidy”), fadian, ġefadian (“to set in order, arrange”), whence Middle English faden (“to arrange”)); or from French fadaise ("a trifling thought"; see fadaise).

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