designating or of a type of restaurant specializing in low-cost carryout food (fast food) that is prepared and served quickly
Typical fast-food.
Fast food is defined as cuisine prepared by restaurants that cater more towards speed and low prices than quality or nutritional value.
An example of fast food is a McDonald's cheeseburger.
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fast food
noun
Inexpensive food, such as hamburgers and fried chicken, prepared and served quickly.
Related Forms:
- fast′-food′
adjective
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Adjective
(comparative more fast-food, superlative most fast-food)
- Of, pertaining to, or serving fast food
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Sentence Examples
- Your husband won't become malnourished from an occasional fast-food dinner.
- Finally, if you notice long lines in a fast-food drive-through or the parking lot has no open parking spaces, find the first available space you can and walk the distance to the restaurant or building.
- Friends of Anna remember that her earliest ambition was to become the next Marilyn Monroe, but she worked at a local fast-food restaurant while waiting for her big break.
- The commercial will show Federline in a rap video, then cut to the downtrodden celeb as he is working in a fast-food restaurant, daydreaming about his rap stardom.
- Are you currently indulging more on fast-food entrees instead of well-thought-out home-cooked meals?
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