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DOUBLE QUICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does double quick mean? 

DOUBLE QUICK (adverb)
  The adverb DOUBLE QUICK has 1 sense:

1. at a faster speedplay

  Familiarity information: DOUBLE QUICK used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DOUBLE QUICK (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

At a faster speed

Synonyms:

double quick; double time

Context example:

now let's play the piece again double-quick


 Context examples 


Bundle out of this, please, hand over hand, and double quick.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Having taken the pirate captain prisoner, sailed slap over the schooner, whose decks were piled high with dead and whose lee scuppers ran blood, for the order had been 'Cutlasses, and die hard!' 'Bosun's mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn't confess his sins double quick,' said the British captain.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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