fang it

English

Verb

fang it (third-person singular simple present fangs it, present participle fanging it, simple past and past participle fanged it)

  1. (Australia, slang) To drive fast; to floor it.
    • 1994, Robert G. Barrett, Mele Kalikimaka Mr Walker: A Les Norton Novel 8:
      The cruise over to the shopping centre was no problem – he even fanged it through the traffic and spun the wheels on the wet road seeing it was his last day in town.
    • 2021, Maria Lewis, The Rose Daughter:
      Yanking the door down and securing the latch, she kicked away the ramp as she climbed into the front cab. It was an automatic and she threw the vehicle into reverse, fanging it out the way it must have come in []
    • 2021, Jock Zonfrillo, Last Shot:
      I could jump in my car and fang it to the butcher shop down those amazing winding country roads in the early hours of the morning when the roads were dead.
  • fang (to drive)
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