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Starvation diet? (4,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fast food

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'starvation diet?' is the definition.
I know that 'diet' relates to this answer.

'starvation diet?' is the wordplay.
'starvation' becomes 'fast' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'diet?' becomes 'food' (diet is a kind of food).
'fast'+'food'='FAST FOOD'

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for fast food that I've seen before include "Burgers or kebabs (but not snails!)" , "Fish and chips, burgers, etc" .)

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