English
Alternative forms
Noun
fast food (uncountable)
- A type of meal that is often standardized, pre-prepared, and served quickly.
- A type of food that is quickly made, but of low nutritional value; junk food.
- Anything standardized, quickly available, and inexpensive, often, of low value.
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2002 March 29, “Going Offshore”, in TIME:- The best evidence is that Sandals, the fast-food king of island weddings, now markets the term weddingmoons.
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2007, Margo Candela, Life over easy:- Guys are good for two things: 1) help when you need to move something heavy, and 2) fast-food sex where you always know what's on the menu and, with a little work, you can supersize it
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2008 August 19, Carmen K. Sisson, “A Georgia church tries drive-in worship”, in Christian Science Monitor, page 25:- Outside, the drive-in crowd is heading back into the Sturm und Drang of city traffic and a fast-food world
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Translations
type of meal that is often pre-prepared and served quickly
- Arabic: وَجْبَات سَرِيعَة pl (wajbāt sarīʿa)
- Armenian: արագ սնունդ (arag snund), ֆասթֆուդ (fastʿfud)
- Bulgarian: полуфабрика́т m (polufabrikát), бързо хранене n (bǎrzo hranene) (method)
- Catalan: menjar ràpid m; plats preparats m pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 快餐 (zh) (kuàicān), 速食 (sùshí)
- Czech: rychlé občerstvení n
- Danish: forbehandlet mad; sammensat fødevare
- Dutch: snelvoedsel f; snelle hap m; haastkost m; flitskost m; gemakvoedsel f
- Esperanto:
- Estonian: kiirtoit, poolfabrikaat
- Finnish: pikaruoka (fi)
- French: fast-food (fr) m
- German: Schnellgericht n, Schnellimbiss (de) m, Schnellkost (de) f, Fertigessen n, Fertigkost f, Fastfood (de) m, n
- Greek: φαστ φουντ (el) n (fast fount)
- Hebrew: פסט פוד
- Hindi: फ़ास्ट फ़ूड (fāsṭ fūḍ)
- Hungarian: gyorsételek
- Indonesian: makanan cepat
- Irish: bia áise
- Italian: fast food (it) m, cibo servito rapidamente
- Japanese: ファースト・フード (fāsuto-fūdo), ファーストフード (fāsutofūdo), 即製食品 (そくせいしょくひん, sokusei shokuhin)
- Korean: 패스트 푸드 (paeseuteu pudeu)
- Latvian: ātrā ēdināšana f
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- Lithuanian: greitasis maistas m
- Macedonian: брза храна f (brza hrana)
- Mongolian: түргэн хоол (türgen hool)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hurtigmat (no) m
- Nynorsk: snøggmat m
- Persian: فست فود (fast fud), غذای فوری (fa) (ğazâ-ye fowri)
- Polish: fast food (pl) m
- Portuguese: fast food (pt) m
- Romanian: fast-food
- Russian: фастфу́д (ru) m (fastfúd), фаст-фу́д m (fast-fúd), бы́строе пита́ние n (býstroje pitánije) (method), полуфабрика́ты (ru) m pl (polufabrikáty) (semi-prepared foods)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: брза храна f, фаст фуд m
- Roman: brza hrana f, fast fud m
- Slovak: rýchlo občerstvenie n
- Slovene: hitra hrana f, fast food m
- Spanish: comida rápida f; platos preparados m pl
- Swahili: chakula cha kununua
- Swedish: snabbmat c
- Tamil: துரித உணவு (turita uṇavu)
- Thai: อาหารจานด่วน
- Tibetan: མགྱོགས་ཟས། (mgyogs zas)
- Turkish: hazır yiyecekler
- Urdu: فاسٹ فوڈ (fāsṭ fūḍ)
- Vietnamese: thức ăn nhanh
- Welsh: prydau parod
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Portuguese
Alternative forms
Noun
fast food m or f (in variation) (plural fast foods)
- fast food (type of meal that is often pre-prepared and served quickly)
