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Accomplished in relatively little time: a fast visit. Acquired quickly with little effort and sometimes unscrupulously: made a fast buck scalping tickets. Indicating a time somewhat ahead of the actual time: The clock is fast. Allowing rapid movement or action: a fast running track.

Designed for or compatible with a short exposure time: fast film. Resistant, as to destruction or fading: fast colors. Firmly fixed or fastened: a fast grip. In quick succession: New ideas followed fast. Ahead of the correct or expected time: a watch that runs fast.

In a dissipated, immoderate way: living fast. These adjectives refer to something marked by great speed. To eat very little or abstain from certain foods, especially as a religious discipline. The act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.

A period of such abstention or self-denial. Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.