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
Mikala-Hawaiian
JodyJO-deeEnglish
Roelof-Dutch
Medeia-Greek Mythology
Biljana-Serbian, Macedonian, Croatian
VirgilVUR-jəl (English)English, Romanian