- fast lane
- noun1. a hectic and pressured lifestyle often characterized by recklessness or dissipation-
life in fashion's fast lane has taught her a lot
• Hypernyms: ↑life style, ↑life-style, ↑lifestyle, ↑modus vivendi2. the traffic lane for vehicles that are moving rapidly• Ant: ↑slow lane• Hypernyms: ↑traffic lane* * *
fast lane,U.S. Informal. a style of living that is socially active and often unrestrained: »life in the fast lane.
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n. [usu. in sing.] a lane of a highway for use by traffic that is moving faster than the rest■ a hectic or highly pressured lifestylehis face showed the strain of a life lived in the fast lane
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noun, pl ⋯ lanes1 [count] : a section of a highway for cars that are traveling at high speedsI pulled into the fast lane to pass the truck.
2 [singular] : a way of living that makes you very busy or that is full of excitement and often danger— usually used in the phrase life in the fast laneHe likes to live life in the fast lane, going from one wild party to the next.
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the part of a major road such as a ↑motorway or ↑interstate where vehicles drive fastestIdiom: ↑in the fast lane
Useful english dictionary. 2012.