Definition of Fast one

1. Noun. A cunning or deceitful action or device. "He pulled a fast one and got away with it"

Exact synonyms: Trick
Generic synonyms: Device, Gimmick, Twist
Specialized synonyms: Schtick, Schtik, Shtick, Shtik
Derivative terms: Trick, Trickster, Tricksy, Tricky

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fast One

fast day
fast dye
fast food
fast food restaurant
fast food restaurants
fast forward
fast forwarded
fast forwarding
fast forwards
fast friend
fast green FCF
fast lane
fast lanes
fast neutron
fast neutrons
fast one (current term)
fast pyrolysis
fast ray
fast reactor
fast rope
fast time scale
fast track
fast tracked
fast tracking
fast tracks
fast yellow AB
fastback
fastbacks
fastball

Literary usage of Fast one

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1890)
"No ball can be punished so easily as the short fast one on a good wicket. All good bowlers indulge in an occasional fast one ; but that is a different thing ..."

2. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"For some thought they ought to fast one day, others two, ... copy read it thus : Some fast one day, some two, some more, some forty days. ..."

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