A crazy notion or wild idea; also, a craze or mania (for something).

A personal obsession, compulsion, or obsessive need; excessive excitement or enthusiasm; a collective enthusiasm, usually short-lived, a ‘craze’…

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

figurative. A prevailing craze; a disordered condition; an outbreak. Frequently with modifying word.

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

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

In extended use: an exaggerated or fanatical enthusiasm for or devotion to one subject; an obsession, a craze.

colloquial (originally U.S.). Usually with the. An obsessive or enthusiastic interest in something. Frequently with modifying word indicating the…

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

An object of (frequently temporary) interest, passion, or enjoyment; an activity or idea about which a person or people are enthusiastic; an…