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fad

Temporary fashion that enjoys a brief period of popularity before becoming unfashionable. Novelty consumer items are often examples of fads.
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The fad without a name was one which dealt with people's finger marks.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
He was the fad of the hour, the adventurer who had stormed Parnassus while the gods nodded.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
On the contrary, he's as poor as a rat for his position, and apparently without the least ambition to be anything else; certainly he won't enrich himself by making a public fad of what all sensible people are agreed upon as it is.
Raffles, Further Adventures Of The Amateur Cracksman by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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