Usually means: Temporary trend widely popular briefly.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word fad:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. FAD, fad: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. FAD, fad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. FAD, fad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fad: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fad: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fad, fad: Wordnik
  7. fad: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. FAD, fad: Wiktionary
  9. fad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fad: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. FAD: Dictionary.com
  13. fad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fad: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FAD (disambiguation), FAD, Fad (disambiguation), Fad: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fad: Rhymezone
  19. fad, fad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. FAD: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. Fad: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. fad: Free Dictionary
  23. fad: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. fad: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. FAD: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. fad: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FAD: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. FAD: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. FAD: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. FAD: Acronym Finder
  3. FAD: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FAD: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. F.A.D, F.A.D. (Firey Anus Discharge), The FAD: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See faddish as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A phenomenon that becomes popular for a very short time.
noun:  (biochemistry) Initialism of flavin adenine dinucleotide.

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