Double Quick

Word DOUBLE QUICK
Character 12
Hyphenation dou ble-quick
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Double Quick"

What do we mean by double quick?

Very quick; rapid. adjective

A marching cadence; double time. noun

To double-time. intransitive & transitive verb

Milit., in double-quick step: as, we were marching double-quick.

Milit., the quickest step next to the run, consisting of 165 steps to the minute, each 33 inches long. Also double-time. noun

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.

Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run. adjective

Double-quick time, step, or march. noun

To move, or cause to move, in double-quick time. verb

The double time, a marching cadence (pace) approaching running speed. noun

To double-time, march (or rather run) at the above speedy pace. verb

(of a marching cadence) very quick adjective

At a faster speed adverb

The double time, a marching cadence (pace) approaching running speed.

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The word "double-quick" in example sentences

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: ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Because this public global shaming is very effective in making them respond double-quick to your gripe. ❋ Scott Goodson (2012)

Obama needs to remove his head from his anus, double-quick, it he wants to have a prayer of being a two-term President. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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." ❋ Unknown (2011)

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." ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

I rode hastily back toward their position, but in the meanwhile, they had been notified by direct orders from McCook, and were moving out at a double-quick toward the Lafayette road. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

'I want to be airborne and out of Russian airspace in double-quick time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The problem with that, of course, comes if a Tory government doesn't fix the fiscal mess in double-quick speed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

WASHINGTON DC - In a move that many are calling a brilliant chess rope-a-dope double-quick back flip of genius awesome supercalifragilisticexpealidotious maneuver political wonderfulness and magical triangulation, today President Barack Obama ordered 40,000 openly gay and lesbian troops into the Afghan War. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I imagine that a legion posted to a fortress whose walls were falling down, by an Emperor who'd just usurped the job and would presumably have to fight to keep it, would repair the defences in double-quick time with whatever they could grab! ❋ Carla (2009)

Apparently whenever anyone brings up the name change, he tries to change the subject double-quick. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was a rope tied to one of the pilings, and I undid it double-quick and stepped in. ❋ Johnny Pez (2009)

He should have angrily fired Goolsbee on the double-quick, but instead he tried to smile his way through the debacle. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In Iran they feel safer than ever, and nuclear bombs can safely be made in double-quick tempo. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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