double-quick
Example Sentences
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And there was another reason Julian got to Margate double-quick: if Banksy chooses your wall for one of his drawings, you could be seriously in the money.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2025
If you want to feel well-read in double-quick time, try Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering, which is set in a New York city tenement in the early days of the pandemic.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2022
He crashes down to +2 in double-quick time.
From The Guardian • Jun. 17, 2021
It has three speeds: slow, quick and double-quick.
From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2017
“I’ll have this old floor up in double-quick time,” he said, inserting his screw driver under the edge of the first board and giving a good vigorous pry.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
