fangs

1. a large sharp tooth, especially a canine tooth of a dog or wolf.

   the dog was bounding towards him, its fangs bared

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’.

1. drive at high speed.

   let's fang up to the beach!

plural noun

a high-speed drive in a car.

1960s: from the name of J. M. Fangio (see Fangio, Juan Manuel).

1. a member of a people inhabiting parts of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.
2. the Bantu language of the Fang, with over 500,000 speakers.

French, probably from Fang Pangwe .