fang
noun
[ faŋ ]
• a large sharp tooth, especially a canine tooth of a dog or wolf.
• "the dog was bounding towards him, its fangs bared"
Origin:
late Old English (denoting booty or spoils), from Old Norse fang ‘capture, grasp’; compare with vang. A sense ‘trap, snare’ is recorded from the mid 16th century; both this and the original sense survive in Scots. The current sense (also mid 16th century) reflects the same notion of ‘something that catches and holds’.
fang
verb
• drive at high speed.
• "let's fang up to the beach!"
fang
noun
• a high-speed drive in a car.
Origin:
1960s: from the name of J. M. Fangio (see Fangio, Juan Manuel).
Fang
noun
• a member of a people inhabiting parts of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.
• the Bantu language of the Fang, with over 500,000 speakers.
Fang
adjective
• relating to the Fang or their language.
Origin:
French, probably from Fang Pangwe .
