The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fast liver
Liver \Liv"er\, n.
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One who, or that which, lives.
And try if life be worth the liver's care.
--Prior. A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
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One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.
Fast liver, one who lives in an extravagant and dissipated way.
Free liver, Good liver, one given to the pleasures of the table.
Loose liver, a person who lives a somewhat dissolute life.
Usage examples of "fast liver".
Pantolabus the wag jeers in the Cafe Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor in the Champs-Elysees, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like Bobeche, takes up a collection.