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Fast one   /fæst wən/   Listen
Fast one

noun
1.
A cunning or deceitful action or device.  Synonym: trick.  "He pulled a fast one and got away with it"



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"Fast one" Quotes from Famous Books



... days before the boys found a vessel going their way, and even then Jack insisted that his father bribed the owners to run off their course in order to set the boys and their motorboats down at the mouth of the Amazon river. The boat, however, was a fast one, equal in speed to a modern ocean liner; and in ten days from the time of starting from New York—on the 12th of August—the boys were stemming the current of the great river—more like a shoreless sea there at ...
— Boy Scouts in an Airship • G. Harvey Ralphson

... opening in the floor of the great chamber. It had been closed by a trap-door of stone, but the door was open. Creeping along this shaft, or passage, for some ten paces, we came at length to a well, seven cubits in depth. Making fast one end of the rope that I had brought about my body and the other to a ring in the rock, I was lowered, holding the lamp in my hand, till I stood in the last resting-place of the Divine Menkau-ra. Then the ...
— Cleopatra • H. Rider Haggard



Words linked to "Fast one" :   twist, gimmick, schtik, shtick, shtik, device, schtick



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