Usually means: Rapidly moving or acting speedily.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. quick, the quick: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. quick, the quick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quick: Collins English Dictionary
  5. quick: Vocabulary.com
  6. Quick, quick: Wordnik
  7. quick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Quick, quick: Wiktionary
  9. quick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. quick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. quick: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. quick: Dictionary.com
  13. quick: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. quick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. QUICK, Quick (German magazine), Quick (automobile), Quick (dance group), Quick (newspaper), Quick (restaurant), Quick (restaurant chain), Quick (sportswear), Quick (surname), Quick, The Quick (U.S. band), The Quick (UK band), The Quick (US band), The Quick (duo), The Quick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Quick: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. quick: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. quick: Rhymezone
  19. quick: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. Quick: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. quick: Free Dictionary
  22. quick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. quick: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. quick: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. quick: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. A Faulkner Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Quick, quick: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. QUICK: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. The Quick, quick: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quick: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The Quick, quick: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. QUICK: Acronym Finder
  3. quick: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. QUICK: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. quick, quick: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. quick: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
adjective:  Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
adjective:  Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
adjective:  Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
adjective:  (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
adjective:  (archaic) Alive, living.
adjective:  (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
adjective:  (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
adjective:  (archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.
adjective:  (archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.
adjective:  (obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
adjective:  (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
adverb:  Quickly, in a quick manner.
adverb:  Answer quickly.
noun:  Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
noun:  Plants used in making a quickset hedge
noun:  The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
noun:  (with "the", archaic) Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
noun:  Quitchgrass.
noun:  (cricket) A fast bowler.
verb:  (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
noun:  A surname.

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