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fastgoing

fastgoing adjective: travelling rapidly.

Adjective

fastgoing (not comparable)

  1. Travelling rapidly.
    • If the cumbrous machine should run into a fastgoing express, bearing a freight of passengers, any disaster might be the result.1911, Boys' Life, volume 1, number 5, page 20

Origin of fastgoing

From fast + going.

Questions about fastgoing

What does fastgoing mean?
Fastgoing means travelling rapidly.
What part of speech is fastgoing?
Fastgoing is an adjective.

Words near fastgoing in the dictionary

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

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