crash diet

crash diet
A diet that is extreme in its nutritional deprivations, typically severely restricting calorie intake in order to achieve rapid weight loss.

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  • crash diet — UK US noun [countable] [singular crash diet plural crash diets] an attempt to lose weight in a very short time Thesaurus: dieting and dietary choiceshyponym general words meaningto eat …   Useful english dictionary

  • crash diet — crash .diet n an attempt to lose a lot of weight quickly by strictly limiting how much you eat …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • crash diet — crash ,diet noun count an attempt to lose weight in a very short time …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Crash diet — This article is about weight loss. For the band, see Crashdïet. A crash diet is a diet which is extreme in its nutritional deprivations, typically severely restricting calorie intake. It is meant to achieve rapid weight loss and may differ from… …   Wikipedia

  • crash diet — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms crash diet : singular crash diet plural crash diets an attempt to lose weight in a very short time …   English dictionary

  • Crash Diet (song) — Infobox Single | Name = Crash Diet Artist = Guns N Roses from Album = Released = Format = Recorded = 1986 Genre = Hard rock Length = 04: 50 Label = Geffen Writer = Axl Rose Slash Izzy Stradlin Producer = Crash Diet was a song by Guns N Roses. The …   Wikipedia

  • crash diet — very strict diet which aims at reducing a great amount of fat in a very short period of time …   English contemporary dictionary

  • crash diet — noun (C) an attempt that someone makes to lose a lot of weight in a very short period of time …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • crash diet — /kræʃ ˈdaɪət/ (say krash duyuht) noun an extreme dieting regime designed to lose weight very quickly …  

  • crash — Since the 1950s, crash has been used attributively (before a noun) to denote something such as a course or programme that is done or undertaken urgently or quickly, e.g. a crash course in Russian or a crash diet. In this use, crash seems to be… …   Modern English usage

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