new fangle: a new fashion or crotchet; a novelty, new invention. (Always in contemptuous sense.) Now rare.

Great enthusiasm or excitement, a ‘rage’ or craze which takes every one by storm. Now chiefly North American. (Cf. furore, n.)

An intense enthusiasm for or interest in a person, pastime, event, etc., typically widespread but short-lived; an obsession, a craze. Frequently…

As complement: a widespread, temporary fashion or enthusiasm; esp. in to be (also become) (all) the rage.

colloquial (originally Criminals' slang). In predicative use with the: the height of fashion; the ‘in’ thing, the ‘rage’. Esp. in all the go…

the fashion. The person or thing that it is fashionable to admire or discuss.

Enthusiastic popular admiration; a ‘rage’, ‘craze’.

A fashionable person. Chiefly in plural.

An insane or irrational fancy; a mania. Also in weakened sense: a capricious and usually temporary enthusiasm; the craze = (all) the rage (see rage…

Absurdity, delusion; an absurd, deluded, or irrational thought, remark, or action. Formerly also: †an irrational enthusiasm, a craze (obsolete). Cf…

A crotchety rule of action; a peculiar notion as to the right way of doing something; a pet project, esp. of social or political reform, to which…

= fashion, n. 9. Cf. fash, adj.

Something which is currently in fashion, the latest craze; something avant-garde or innovative. Also occasionally as adj.

figurative. A prevailing craze; a disordered condition; a supposed illness offered as an excuse for industrial action, absence, etc. Usually with…

transferred. An interest or enthusiasm, esp. one that is temporary; a fashion, fad (cf. sense 4); a subject, line of thought, or manner of…