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fast
adjective
overly concerned with the affairs of others TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
▶ as fast as lightning over Cuba
very fast CAYMAN ISLANDS- — Aarona Booker Kohlman, Wotcha Say, p. 29, 1985
▶ faster than the mill-tails of hell
moving very, very fast CANADA- Proverbial, metaphorical way of describing speed, which owes something to the nineteenth-century waterwheels and mill-races in the rivermouths of the South Shore. — Lewis Poteet, The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 43, 1999
▶ get fast
in a criminal enterprise, to cheat a partner out of money or goods US- — Carsten Stroud, Close Pursuit, p. 272, 1987
▶ so fast he’s goin’ like greased lightnin’ thru a gooseberry bush
used for indicating great speed CANADA
Note the alliteration - goin’, greased, gooseberry - which is often characteristic of Nova Scotia slang.- A man moves so fast he’s goin’ like greased lightnin’ thru’ a gooseberry bush. — Harry Bruce, Down Home, p. 109, 1988
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