fast food

See also: fastfood, Fastfood, and fast-food

English

Alternative forms

• fast-food, fastfood

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfæst ˈfuːd/, /ˈfɑːst ˈfuːd/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

fast food (usually uncountable, plural fast foods)

1. Food that is served quickly, often standardized and pre-prepared.
2. A type of food that is quickly made, but of low nutritional value; junk food.
   • 1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Television As An instrument of Terror, page 189:

     In the course of the last decade, it has become the dominant “fast-food” franchise in America—and it is now spreading abroad, carrying its gospel of machine technology wedded to cheap hamburgers wherever it can find a mouth-hold, and converting anyone it can to the glories of junk food

   • 1986, “JUNK. OR. GEMS?”, in 1000s of free things: or almost free, page 131:

     Everyone loves some junk food some of the time. That's why there are more than 140,000 fast food restaurants in the U.S.

   • 1999, Carol Silverman Saunders, Safe at School: Awareness and Action for Parents of Kids Grades K-12:

     In high schools with open campuses, students leave at lunchtime to buy fast food elsewhere. Since leaving school is unsafe, schools are opting to serve less nutritious foods so the students stay on campus. For example, many schools have invited junk food franchises into their cafeterias, including Subway, Taco Bell, and Domino's.

   • 2012 June 6, Dawn C. Chmielewski, “Disney bans junk-food advertising on programs for children”, in Los Angeles Times:

     Disney even chose to stop licensing its film characters for McDonald’s Happy Meals, citing the link between fast food and childhood obesity.

   • 2019 January 15, Lauren Tousignant, “Junk food ads overwhelmingly target black, Hispanic kids”, in New York Post:

     Junk food companies spent billions of advertising dollars in 2017 targeting black and Hispanic kids, a new study has revealed. / Television ads for fast food, sugary drinks and fatty or salty snacks are almost exclusively targeted to minority youth, the report, supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found.

3. Anything standardized, quickly available, and inexpensive, often, of low value.
   • 2002 March 29, “Going Offshore”, in Time:

     The best evidence is that Sandals, the fast-food king of island weddings, now markets the term weddingmoons.

   • 2007, Margo Candela, Life over easy:

     Guys are good for two things: 1) help when you need to move something heavy, and 2) fast-food sex where you always know what's on the menu and, with a little work, you can supersize it

   • 2008 August 19, Carmen K. Sisson, “A Georgia church tries drive-in worship”, in Christian Science Monitor, page 25:

     Outside, the drive-in crowd is heading back into the Sturm und Drang of city traffic and a fast-food world

Synonyms

• (type of meal served quickly): short order
• (quick meal of low nutritional value): junk food

Derived terms

• slow food

Translations

type of meal that is often pre-prepared and served quickly

• Arabic: وَجْبَات سَرِيعَة pl (wajbāt sarīʕa)

  Moroccan Arabic: ماكلة الزنقة (māklat ez-zanqa), مالكة برا (māklat barra)

• Armenian: արագ սնունդ (arag snund), ֆասթֆուդ (fastʿfud)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܹܐܟ݂ܠܵܬܹ̈ܐ ܩܲܠܘܼܠܹ̈ܐ f pl (mēḵlātē qalūlē)
• Bulgarian: полуфабрика́т m (polufabrikát), бързо хранене n (bǎrzo hranene) (method)
• Catalan: menjar ràpid (ca) m; plats preparats m pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 快餐 (zh) (kuàicān), 速食 (zh) (sùshí)

• Czech: rychlé občerstvení (cs) n
• Danish: forbehandlet mad; sammensat fødevare, fastfood c
• Dutch: snelvoedsel f; snelle hap m; haastkost m; flitskost m; gemakvoedsel f
• Esperanto: rapidmanĝaĵo
• Estonian: kiirtoit, poolfabrikaat
• Finnish: pikaruoka (fi)
• French: fast-food (fr) m
• German: Schnellgericht n, Schnellimbiss (de) m, Schnellkost (de) f, Fertigessen n, Fertigkost f, Fastfood (de) m or n
• Greek: φαστ φουντ (el) n (fast fount)
• Hebrew: פסט פוד
• Hindi: फ़ास्ट फ़ूड (fāsṭ fūḍ)
• Hungarian: gyorsételek
• Indonesian: makanan cepat
• Irish: bia áise
• Italian: fast food (it) m, cibo servito rapidamente m
• Japanese: ファースト・フード (fāsuto fūdo), ファーストフード (fāsutofūdo), 即製食品 (そくせいしょくひん, sokusei shokuhin)
• Kabuverdianu: fatióta
• Kazakh: фастфуд (fastfud)
• Korean: 패스트 푸드 (paeseuteu pudeu)
• Latvian: ātrā ēdināšana f
• Lithuanian: greitasis maistas m
• Macedonian: брза храна f (brza hrana)
• Maori: ō rangaranga
• Mongolian: түргэн хоол (türgen xool)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hurtigmat (no) m

  Nynorsk: snøggmat m

• Persian: فست فود (fast fud), غذای فوری (fa) (ğazâ-ye fowri)
• Polish: fast food (pl) m
• Portuguese: fast food (pt) m
• Romanian: fast-food (ro)
• Russian: фастфу́д (ru) m (fastfúd), фаст-фу́д m (fast-fúd), бы́строе пита́ние n (býstroje pitánije) (method), полуфабрика́ты (ru) m pl (polufabrikáty) (semi-prepared foods)
• Scottish Gaelic: biadh luath m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брза храна f, фаст фуд m

  Roman: brza hrana f, fast fud m

• Slovak: rýchlo občerstvenie n
• Slovene: hitra hrana f, fast food m
• Spanish: comida rápida f; platos preparados m pl
• Swahili: chakula cha kununua
• Swedish: snabbmat (sv) c
• Tamil: துரித உணவு (turita uṇavu)
• Thai: อาหารจานด่วน (aa-hǎan-jaan-dùuan)
• Tibetan: མགྱོགས་ཟས། (mgyogs zas)
• Turkish: hazır yiyecekler
• Urdu: فاسٹ فوڈ (fāsṭ fūḍ)
• Uyghur: تېز تاماق (tëz tamaq)
• Vietnamese: thức ăn nhanh, đồ ăn nhanh (vi)
• Welsh: bwyd cyflwym m, bwyd brys m
• Yiddish: גיך־עסן (gikh-esn), גיכשפּײַז (gikhshpayz)

See also

• fast food on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• junk food

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fast food.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fast fut/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

fast food m inan

1. snack bar

   Synonym: bar szybkiej obsługi

2. fast food (type of meal that is often pre-prepared and served quickly)

Declension

Declension of fast food

	singular	plural
nominative	fast food	fast foody
genitive	fast foodu	fast foodów
dative	fast foodowi	fast foodom
accusative	fast food	fast foody
instrumental	fast foodem	fast foodami
locative	fast foodzie	fast foodach
vocative	fast foodzie	fast foody

Derived terms

adjective

• fastfoodowy

 

Further reading

• fast food in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• fast food in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fast-food

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English fast food.

Noun

fast food m or f (plural fast foods)

1. fast food (type of meal that is often pre-prepared and served quickly)

   Synonym: comida-rápida