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quick

adjective
  1. Characterized by great celerity: breakneck, expeditious, fast, fleet, rapid, speedy, swift. Informal: hell-for-leather. Idiom: quick as a bunny (or wink). See fast
  2. Moving or performing quickly, lightly, and easily: agile, brisk, facile, nimble, spry. See ability
  3. Mentally quick and original: alert, bright, clever, intelligent, keen 1, quick-witted, sharp, sharp-witted, smart. Idiom: smart as a whip. See ability
  4. Accomplished in very little time: brief, expeditious, fast, flying, hasty, hurried, rapid, short, speedy, swift. See fast
noun
A point of origin from which ideas or influences, for example, originate: bottom, center, core, focus, heart, hub, root 1. See start
adverb
In a rapid way: apace, fast, posthaste, quickly. Informal: flat out, hell-for-leather, lickety-split, pronto. Idioms: full tilt, in a flash, in nothing flat, like a bat out of hell, like a blue streak, like a flash, like a house on fire, like a shot, like a streak, like greased lightning, like the wind, like wildfire. See fast

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