| 1. | a racetrack dry and hard enough for optimum speed. |
| 2. | a railroad track for express trains. |
| 3. | Informal. a situation or course of action that is intensely pressured or competitive, esp. one in which a person advances rapidly to a higher level in a business or profession: With two promotions in six months, he seems to have chosen the fast track. |
| 4. | on a or the fast track, Informal.
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[fast-trak, fahst-] 
| 1. | to advance or develop rapidly. |
| 2. | of or pertaining to the fast track. |
| fast track n. Informal The quickest and most direct route to achievement of a goal, as in competing for professional advancement: "Making complaints against the public is hardly the fast track to elective office" (New Yorker). fast'-track' (fāst'trāk') adj. & v., fast track'er n. |