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Fad

//fæd// noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    Initialism of flavin adenine dinucleotide. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    an interest followed with exaggerated zeal wordnet

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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