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fast one

n. a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it" [syn: trick]

Usage examples of "fast one".

And seeing, by the bye, that Brittles had been a slow boy for upwards of thirty years, there appeared no great probability of his ever being a fast one.

You see what sort of a cove that Gabbett is--he'd kill his father before he'd fast one day.

Meanwhile Ulysses untied the horses, made them fast one to another and drove them off, striking them with his bow, for he had forgotten to take the whip from the chariot.