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fast forward
1[ fast fawr-werd, fahst- ]
noun
- a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that allows the content to be advanced rapidly.
- the button or other control that activates this function.
fast-forward
2[ fast-fawr-werd, fahst- ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to advance an audio or video recording rapidly:
I always fast-forward through the TV ads that get recorded on my DVR.
- to skip over a period of time and arrive at a future point in the timeline, especially in narration:
Fast-forward six months, she’s gotten engaged and is moving to Europe!
fast-forward
noun
- sometimes not hyphenated the control on a tape deck or video recorder used to wind the tape or video forward at speed
- informal.a state of urgency or rapid progress
my mind went into fast forward
verb
- tr to wind (a video or tape) forward using the fast-forward control
- to deal with speedily
fast-forward the trials of the new drug
- intr to move forward through a tape or video using the fast-forward control
- usually foll by to to direct one's attention towards a particular time or event, ignoring intervening material
fast-forward to the summer of 2008
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Example Sentences
Fast forward two centuries, and all these checks have long since ceased to function.
Fast-forward three centuries, and Cuomo II sounds awfully like the long-dead Louis.
Fast-forward a decade and 10 seasons of The Bachelorette later.
Fast-forward to 2012, when home and heart meant very different things to Republicans Romney and Ryan.
Fast forward to the present day: many newspapers have full-time lifestyle editors.
Then a plank was run out, a line made fast forward, and Perkins climbed the bank and greeted Mrs. Browne.
Here she was now fixed hard and fast forward, with her forefoot high and dry, although there was deep water under her stern aft.
The sail may be made up on the forecastle, and the end of the tack and halyards made fast forward, if it is to be soon set again.
The other end of the spare anchor-rope, to which the stuff was tied, was yet to be made fast forward.
And she touched her horse with the spur, and cantered fast forward, leaving the little house behind.
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