fast lane

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Noun

fast lane (plural fast lanes)

  1. On a multilane road, the lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds.
  2. (figuratively, by extension) Any situation or activity where the pace is very rapid.
    • 1981 December 1, Susan Saxe, “Survival with Agony and Art”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 9:
      One of the four main characters in This Place, tough, streetwise Candy Peters, is a white girl more at home in black culture than anywhere else, a throwaway child, a veteran of the fast lane, drugs, prostitution, jail.
  3. (misconception, by extension) the overtaking lane or passing lane.

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