fad A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary📕
fad fad, n. a weak or transient hobby, crotchet, or
craze: any unimportant belief or practice intemperately
urged.—adjs.Fad′dish,
given to fads—also Fad′dy.—ns.Fad′disnness; Fad′dism; Fad′dist, one who is a slave to some fad.
[Ety. dub.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book⛵
fad An old corruption of foreward--in the fore-part of the ship.
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