Definition of "fast food" [fast food]

• Inexpensive food, such as hamburgers and fried chicken, prepared and served quickly. (noun)

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• "Buck Barnes had run two-thirds of the way across the street when he decided that he needed to cut back on fast food and start making use of the workout facilities down at the station."
• "No more fast food resturants are needed at 646 & I45."
• "There are numerous apparent reasons for this condition: 1. The easy availability of tasty, high-fat, and high-caloric foods and beverages 2. The massive advertising of fast food restaurants 3. The relative lack of exercise fostered by watching television, surfing the net, and playing extraordinarily realistic computer games 4. The stress and accompanying depression that we experience living in times of serious economic and environmental uncertainty"