craze
noun/kreɪz/
/kreɪz/
- craze (for something) an enthusiastic interest in something that is shared by many people but that usually does not last very long; a thing that people have a craze for synonym fad
- the latest fitness craze to sweep the country
Extra Examples- Doctors warned of the latest drug craze to sweep America.
- Is this interest in health foods just a passing craze?
- It's the latest craze to hit San Francisco.
- The princess started a craze for huge earrings.
- the craze for fashionable sports clothing
- the latest craze among children
- I don't understand this craze for collecting labels.
- Pet pigs are the latest craze.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- current
- latest
- new
- …
- start
- sweep something
- sweep through something
- hit something
- …
- craze among
- craze for
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘break, produce cracks’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish krasa ‘crunch’.Definitions on the go
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