craze

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++craze /kreɪz/ noun [countable]  FASHIONABLEa fashion, game, type of music etc that becomes very popular for a short time 时尚，一时的狂热 SYN fadcraze for She started a craze for this type of jewellery. 她为这类首饰掀起了一股时尚热潮。 At that time, scooters were the latest craze. 那时候，小型摩托车是最新的时尚。fitness/dance/fashion etc craze The jogging craze began in the 1970s. 慢跑热始于20世纪70年代。

Examples from the Corpus

craze• The December quarter also will be a chance for investors to take the pulse of the Internet craze.• The jogging craze began in the 1970s.• Still to come ... can the new craze for step aerobics actually damage your health?• Young people wanted to organise groups too or at least to enrol somewhere in the new craze.• I thought his interest merely a passing craze, at the time.• The man behind the craze is currently touring the country in a one man and his puppets show.• Needless to say, swing has been enjoying a rebirth lately, with ordinary folk getting into the craze.• What I object to is the craze for machinery, not machinery as such.latest craze• In the fashionable Recoleta district of Buenos Aires, the latest craze is sushi.• Finally, if you after, try posting your request comparing prices across shops has become the latest craze amongst shopping.• What you can do Young people are often curious and like to experiment with the latest craze.• The latest craze sweeping high schools and college dorms across the States is True Crime trading cards.Origin craze (1800-1900) craze “to make crazy”; → CRAZED

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craze
craze /kreɪz/ noun [countable]a fashion, game, type of music etc that becomes very popular for a short time
   SYN  fad
    craze for
    She started a craze for this type of jewellery.
    At that time, scooters were the latest craze.
    fitness/dance/fashion etc craze
    The jogging craze began in the 1970s.
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ fashion noun [uncountable and countable] a style of clothes, hair, behaviour etc that is fashionable. Fashion is also used as an uncountable noun, when talking about all of these styles in general: the latest fashions from Donna Karan | changing fashions in popular music | I'm not interested in fashion.
   ▪ vogue noun [singular,uncountable] if there is a vogue for something, or it is in vogue, it is fashionable. Vogue sounds more formal and typical of the language that more educated speakers use than fashion: the current vogue for realistic animated films | There was a vogue for cream furniture in the 1920s. | His pictures are very much in vogue these days.
   ▪ trend noun [countable] a way of doing something or a way of thinking that is becoming fashionable or popular: The magazine focuses on the latest trends in contemporary design. | The trend is for people to wait longer to marry and have children.
   ▪ craze/fad noun [countable] informal a fashion, activity, type of music etc that suddenly becomes very popular, but only remains popular for a short time – often used about things that you think are rather silly: a new fitness craze | the current fad for bare white walls and uncomfortable-looking metal furniture | I'm sure it's just a passing fad (=something that will soon stop being fashionable). | fad diets
   ▪ something is all the rage formal used when saying that something is very popular and fashionable for a short time: The game was all the rage at her school.

crazeBrE /kreɪz/ 🔊NAmE /kreɪz/ 🔊 noun~ (for sth) an enthusiastic interest in sth that is shared by many people but that usually does not last very long; a thing that people have a craze for （通常为一时的）狂热，疯狂；风行一时的东西 SYN fad ◆the latest fitness craze to sweep the country最近风靡全国的健身热