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Fast One

Definition: Fast One

Fast One

Noun

1. A cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Fast One

Synonym: trick (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fast One

English words defined with "fast one": BairamDay of Atonementpull a fast one onruntrick, TyeWeaver birdYom Kippurzonk out. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fast one": 6502Advanced RISC MachineB-treeClear Cut, clock rateData Address Generator, Delos, Digital Audio TapeFast Girl, fast information group, Fast Ion, Superthermal Ion, Suprathermal Ion, Fast Man, Federation Against Software TheftHand over HandIBM 650, infinite loopJOCKEYmain memory, megabits per second, microcode, MicroGnuEmacs, Motorola 6809Neutral Beam Injectionpoiser, balance, primary cacheRandom Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter, rapid plow, RCA 1802SCSI adaptor, slip rate, straight line itTIMING ADJUSTER, TMS 9900, Trowelvdiff, video random access memoryWashboardx-directiony-direction. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Fast One

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

  • AUTHORIZED INTERNATIONAL EDITION OF THE SOYUZMULTFILM LIBRARY Vol 13 (in Russian):Trouble is not so bad, Brave and Fast One, Foca the Handyman, The Tzocotuha Fly (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Fast One

Expressions using "fast one": pull a fast one pull a fast one on pull a fast one on smb.. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fast One

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fast one take touch

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fast One

Language Translations for "fast one"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, trim), излъгвам (delude, have, hoax, jockey, pull a fast one). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zahrát to na koho (pull a fast one on smb.), oblafnout koho (pull a fast one on smb.). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τραβώ ένα γρήγορο (pull a fast one). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

trükkel becsap vkit (to pull a fast one), szédelgést követ el (to pull a fast one), becsap valakit (pull a fast one), átejt vkit (have sy over, to pull a fast one, to sell sy down the river, to take sy for a ride, to trade sy down the river, to trade sy down the rivet), átejt valakit (pull a fast one). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astfay oneay

   

Russian 

  

обманывать (befool, beguile, bilk, cheat, deceive, deceiving, defraud, delude, disappoint, do, double cross, flimflam, fob, fool into thinking, gag, gull, hocus, hoodwink, impose, jockey, juggle, kid, mump, practise deceit, practise deception, prey, pull a fast one, swindle, victimize). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

isfolirati (pull a fast one). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, befool, beguile, belie, betray, bilk, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, dupe, fob, fool, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, spoof, stay, swindle, take in, trick, while away). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

lura ngn (play fast and loose with smb., pull a fast one). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

oyuna getirmek (hoodwink, play smb. a trick, pull a fast one, surprise, trap, trick), oyun etmek (deceive, hoax, hocus, palter, play a trick, play a trick on smb., play smb. a trick, pull a fast one, trick). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fast One

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-n-o-s-t"

-1 letter: atones, fasten, soften.

-2 letters: aeons, antes, atone, etnas, fanes, fanos, fates, fatso, feast, feats, fetas, fonts, nates, neats, notes, oaten, often, onset, santo, seton, softa, stane, steno, stoae, stone, toeas, tones.

-3 letters: aeon, anes, ante, ants, ates, east, eats, efts, eons, etas, etna, fane, fano, fans, fast, fate, fats, feat, fens, feta, fets.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-n-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: seafront.

 

+2 letters: conflates, falconets, fetations, flagstone, fontanels, frontages, halftones, manifesto, pantofles, seafronts, sulfonate.

 

+3 letters: affections, afternoons, confiscate, cotransfer, deflations, defoliants, fellations, flagstones, forestland, fornicates, lakefronts, manifestos, rainforest, reflations, sulfonated, sulfonates, tamoxifens, transferor, xenografts.

 

+4 letters: afforesting, beachfronts, benefactors, breakfronts, confidantes, confiscated, confiscates, cotransfers, craftswomen, defamations, defecations, fatuousness, federations, fianchettos, filamentous, floatplanes, fluorinates, fontanelles, forecasting, forestation, forestlands, foretasting, fortepianos, infestation, manifestoed, manifestoes, oceanfronts, outfeasting, pianofortes, prefrontals, profanities, rainforests, refractions, refutations, retransform, sinfonietta, teaspoonful, transferors, transformed, transformer, waterfronts.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fast One


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 73 74      4F 6E 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001111 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#79 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0073 0074      004F 006E 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

406785862498071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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