See fast lane on Wiktionary
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"On a multilane road, the lane intended or reserved for vehicles overtaking or moving at faster speeds."
],
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],
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],
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"word": "left lane camper"
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"_dis1": "82 18",
"word": "left lane hog"
}
],
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"word": "passing lane"
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"word": "overtaking lane"
}
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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"roman": "kuàichēdào",
"sense": "the lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds",
"word": "快車道 /快车道"
},
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"sense": "the lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds",
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"word": "Überholspur"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "the lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "carril de alta velocidad"
}
]
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181,
190
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],
"ref": "1981 December 1, Susan Saxe, “Survival with Agony and Art”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 9:",
"text": "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.",
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"Any situation or activity where the pace is very rapid."
],
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"(figuratively, by extension) Any situation or activity where the pace is very rapid."
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"word": "passing lane"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "kuàichēdào",
"sense": "the lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds",
"word": "快車道 /快车道"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "the lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Überholspur"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"sense": "the lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "carril de alta velocidad"
}
],
"word": "fast lane"
}
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