craze

IPA: krˈeɪz

(archaic) craziness; insanity.
A strong habitual desire or fancy.
A temporary passion or infatuation, as for some new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad.
(ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.

(archaic) To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
(transitive, intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.

Examples of "craze" in Sentences

The style was the craze in this period.
Rotorua retailers spurn latest legal high craze.
The miniskirts were once the craze of the society.
The first bubble was the tulip craze in the Netherlands.
The Billiken helped touch off the doll craze of the era.
Strict guidlines for this kind of craze is necessary IMO.
Similarly in the United States, the espresso craze spread.
The current principal is the actor and director, Peter Craze.
The resulting fad was not unlike the disco craze of the 1970s.
It is part of the reality television craze of the turn of the millennium.
The extent of the craze exceeded even that of the Rubik's cube in the 1980s.
In Africa and elsewhere they made fun of what they called his craze for scribbling.
Pasta craze is the next fried chicken/frozen yogurt/Pat LaFrieda burger/Asian sandwich craze?
But even as he was forcefully making his point, Wilson was trapped in an “I say I hate even as I fervently embrace” relationship with the word craze.
Gladwell's frustration with the social media craze is apparent as he assembles and then reacts to a list of over-hyped quotes and accolades for the infant platforms.
Author Jeff Strand (who has not forgotten that the whole zombie-mania craze is at least partially my fault) has come up with a counter-attack to the seemingly endless wave of zombie mash-ups.