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fast

adjective
  1. Characterized by great celerity: breakneck, expeditious, fleet, quick, rapid, speedy, swift. Informal: hell-for-leather. Idiom: quick as a bunny (or wink). See fast
  2. Accomplished in very little time: brief, expeditious, flying, hasty, hurried, quick, rapid, short, speedy, swift. See fast
  3. Lacking in moral restraint: abandoned, dissipated, dissolute, gay, incontinent, licentious, profligate, rakish, unbridled, unconstrained, uncontrolled, ungoverned, uninhibited, unrestrained, wanton, wild. See restraint
  4. Marked by an absence of conventional restraint in sexual behavior; sexually unrestrained: easy, libertine, light 2, loose, wanton, whorish. See sex
  5. Permanently resistive to fading: colorfast, indelible. See continue
  6. Persistently holding to something: clinging, firm 1, secure, tenacious, tight. See free, tighten
  7. Firmly settled or positioned: firm 1, secure, stable, steady, strong, sure. See continue
  8. Adhering firmly and devotedly, as to a person, a cause, or a duty: allegiant, constant, faithful, firm 1, liege, loyal, staunch, steadfast, true. See continue, trust
adverb
In a rapid way: apace, posthaste, quick, quickly. Informal: flat out, hell-for-leather, lickety-split, pronto. Idioms: full tilt, in a flash, in nothing flat, like a bat out of hell, like a blue streak, like a flash, like a house on fire, like a shot, like a streak, like greased lightning, like the wind, like wildfire. See fast
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