Meanings
plural fast lanes
- On a multilane road, the lane intended or reserved for vehicles overtaking or moving at faster speeds.
Synonyms: passing lane, overtaking lane
- broadlyfigurativelyAny situation or activity where the pace is very rapid.
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.
1981 December 1, Susan Saxe, “Survival with Agony and Art”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 9
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOn a multilane road, the lane intended or reserved for vehicles overtaking or moving at faster speeds.
More synonyms by meaning
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 快車道 /快车道
- 快車道 /快车道 (kuàichēdào)the lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds
German Überholspur
- Überholspurthe lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds
Spanish carril de alta velocidad
- carril de alta velocidadthe lane intended or reserved for vehicles moving at faster speeds
Cite this entry
fast lane. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fast%20lane
“fast lane.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fast%20lane. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fast lane,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fast%20lane.
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