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
Hypatia-Ancient Greek
IllÉS-Hungarian
Lila (2)LIE-ləEnglish
BlankaBLAHN-kah (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Croatian), BLAWN-kaw (Hungarian)Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian
SelmaSEL-mə (English), ZEL-mah (German)English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic
Teodozjate-aw-DAW-zyahPolish