Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very quick; rapid.
- noun A marching cadence; double time.
- intransitive & transitive verb To double-time.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Milit., in double-quick step: as, we were marching double-quick.
- noun Milit., the quickest step next to the run, consisting of 165 steps to the minute, each 33 inches long. Also
double-time . - Performed in the time of the double-quick; pertaining to or in conformity with the double-quick: as, double-quick step.
- Very quick or hurried: as, he disappeared in double-quick time.
- Milit., to march in double-quick step.
- Milit., to cause to march in double-quick step: as, the colonel double-quicked them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mil.) Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run.
- noun Double-quick time, step, or march.
- verb (Mil.) To move, or cause to move, in double-quick time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
double time , amarching cadence (pace) approaching running speed. - verb intransitive To
double-time ,march (or ratherrun ) at the abovespeedy pace .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a marching cadence) very quick
- adverb at a faster speed
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Examples
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Such a bill would be shot down in double-quick time, and do great political damage to Obama on its way down the toilet. steve Says:
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Obama needs to remove his head from his anus, double-quick, it he wants to have a prayer of being a two-term President.
Matthew Yglesias » A Flawed Stimulus is Better than No Stimulus 2009
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The US, and more recently China, have gradually latched on to the growing global market for solar and have been setting up factories in double-quick time.
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Because this public global shaming is very effective in making them respond double-quick to your gripe.
Scott Goodson: Why Movements Are Like a Good Marriage Scott Goodson 2012
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At the time of the incident, the controller said, he was fatigued because he "had to be up all night long on a double-quick turnaround."
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Ages 11+ Twenty-one-year-old star chef Sam Stern's recipe book for the time-pressed teen is crammed full of ideas for whipping up good food double-quick.
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Packers 17-10 Bears, 8:49 3rd quarter The Bears front seven might just be getting tired here - suddenly Ryan Grant is finding huge gaps to run through here as he leads the Packers down to the Chicago 12 in double-quick time.
Green Bay Packers 27-17 Chicago Bears - as it happened | Paolo Bandini 2011
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Because this public global shaming is very effective in making them respond double-quick to your gripe.
Scott Goodson: Why Movements Are Like a Good Marriage Scott Goodson 2012
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Under a terrible storm of shot and shell the line pressed forward steadily through the timber, and as it emerged on the plain took the double-quick and with fixed bayonets rushed at the enemy's first line.
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We opened for business, with Susie dressed like a dog's dinner queening it in the hall, her cashier in an office to one side, and a broken-down medico in a little room on the other - "for the only thing they're goin 'to leave here is cash," says she, "an 'if they don't like bein' looked at by the pox-spotter, they can take themselves off, double-quick."
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
hernesheir commented on the word double-quick
This adjectival term is also employed as a noun and as an adverb in the example sentences.
March 13, 2013