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

[John Bailey]

That's *very* informal (and semi-obscure) Australian slang.

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
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