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fastfood

fastfood is the alternative form of fast food.

Meaning of fast food

Noun

fast food (usually uncountable, plural fast foods)

  1. (usually) Restaurant food that is served quickly, often standardized and pre-prepared.
    Synonyms:
    short order
  2. (usually) A type of food that is quickly made, but of low nutritional value; junk food.
    • In the course of the last decade, it has become the dominant “fast-food” franchise in America—and it is now spreading abroad, carrying its gospel of machine technology wedded to cheap hamburgers wherever it can find a mouth-hold, and converting anyone it can to the glories of junk food1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Television As An instrument of Terror, page 189
    Synonyms:
    junk food
  3. (usually) Anything standardized, quickly available, and inexpensive, often, of low value.
    • The best evidence is that Sandals, the fast-food king of island weddings, now markets the term weddingmoons.2002 March 29, “Going Offshore”, in Time

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What is fastfood the alternative form of?
Fastfood is the alternative form of fast food.

Words near fastfood in the dictionary

  1. fastest-flowing
  2. fastest-growing
  3. fastest-moving
  4. fastest-paced
  5. fasteth
  6. fastfood
  7. fastgang
  8. fastgoing
  9. fastgrowing
  10. Fasthorse
  11. fasti

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