fang it

present singular third person fangs it · participle present fanging it · participle past fanged it · past fanged it

1. AustraliaslangTo drive fast; to floor it.

   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.

   2021, Jock Zonfrillo, Last Shot

   2 more examples

   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.

   1994, Robert G. Barrett, Mele Kalikimaka Mr Walker: A Les Norton Novel 8

   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, Maria Lewis, The Rose Daughter