empty calorie

empty calorie

noun
a calorie whose source has little or no nutritional value: Junk food has only empty calories.

Origin:
1965–70, Americanism

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Empty calorie is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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