/ kreɪz; NAmE / 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
SYN fad :
the latest fitness craze to sweep the country
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WORD ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense break, produce cracks ): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish krasa crunch.