fast lane

fast lane
noun
1. a hectic and pressured lifestyle often characterized by recklessness or dissipation
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life in fashion's fast lane has taught her a lot

• Hypernyms: ↑life style, ↑life-style, ↑lifestyle, ↑modus vivendi
2. the traffic lane for vehicles that are moving rapidly
• Ant: ↑slow lane
• Hypernyms: ↑traffic lane

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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 lifestyle

his face showed the strain of a life lived in the fast lane

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noun, pl ⋯ lanes
1 [count] : a section of a highway for cars that are traveling at high speeds

I 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 lane

He likes to live life in the fast lane, going from one wild party to the next.

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ˈfast lane [fast lane] noun singular
the part of a major road such as a ↑motorway or ↑interstate where vehicles drive fastest
Idiom: ↑in the fast lane

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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