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empty calories

empty calories

Food that has little or no nutritional value. For example, Snacking on beer and potato chips makes for a lot of empty calories. [1960s]
See also: empty

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Pilib-Irish
Clementineklə-mawn-TEENFrench
BeckaBEK-əEnglish
Hereweald-Anglo-Saxon
Andreiahn-DRYAY (Russian)Romanian, Russian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavic
PerttuPERT-tooFinnish
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