Move fast, like a British subject going round the job centre (5)
I believe the answer is:
scoot
'move fast' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are verbs in their base form, I can't understand how they can define each other.
'a british subject going round the job centre' is the wordplay.
'a british subject' becomes 'scot' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'going round' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters go around others).
'centre' indicates the central letters.
The centre of 'job' is 'o'.
'scot' going around 'o' is 'SCOOT'.
'like' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scoot that I've seen before include "hightail it" , "Move with a rapid darting motion" , "hurry" , "Move rapidly" , "Skedaddle" .)