Definition of "low-cal" []

• Having comparatively fewer calories than what is standard or typical: low-cal snack foods. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The restaurants promised new home cookin' translation: healthier, low-cal soul food... further translation: what's the point? but even in New York, where many restaurants that serve truly niche food can flourish, Soul Daddy failed."
• "As an entrepreneur running a growing liquor brand, I watched with interest when Frankel sold her Skinnygirl brand of low-cal margaritas for a reported $120MM."
• "I'd spent my teens choosing the low-cal option while my peers chowed down."