Fang..Didja know it also meant "to drive at great speed"..not I

[Mark Kohut]

3. (Medicine / Dentistry) the root of a tooth
4. (usually plural) Brit informal tooth clean your fangs
[Old English fang what is caught, prey; related to Old Norse fang a grip, German Fang booty]
fanged  adj
fangless  adj
fanglike  adj

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fang2 Austral informal
vb (intr)
to drive at great speed
n
an act or instance of driving in such a way we took the car for a fang
[from Juan Manuel Fangio (1911-95), Argentinian racing driver who was world champion five times]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003


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fang (fng)
A long, pointed tooth in vertebrate animals or a similar structure in spiders, used to seize prey and sometimes to inject venom. The fangs of a poisonous snake, for example, have a hollow groove through which venom flows.