fad diet

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   a reducing diet that enjoys temporary popularity

   Broaderreducing diet

Questions about fad diet

What does fad diet mean?

fad diet means "a reducing diet that enjoys temporary popularity".

Is fad diet a common word?

fad diet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.