Meaning

2 senses
  1. A restrictive diet whose main goal is short-term weight loss.

  2. A diet that is popular only for a short time, a novelty diet; a fad in food.

More definitions
  • a reducing diet that enjoys temporary popularity

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom is following a fad diet.

    ruТом сидит на модной диете. — Wezel

  2. Tom is on another fad diet.

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  3. His hobby is creating new fad diets.

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  4. Yet a leading researcher and nutritionist says the fad diets are doing more harm than good.

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  5. Basically, she's created a fad diet collider. And sometimes the particles that spin off are gluon-free neutrino burgers.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

plural: fad diets
Singularfad diet
Pluralfad diets

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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