flying
quick
fast
in a hurry
hastily
shortly
whistle-stop
precipitated
in haste
acute
hurriedly
fall over one's feet
rushed
hurriedness
hustle
quickish
hurried
jot down
jot
deliberate
fooster
rapid
nimble-witted
quicksome
accelerate
precipitate
soon
huffy
besharp
thin-skinned
in quick sticks
touchy
feisty
wallop
alacritous
expedience
hasty
ready
press
quicksmart
while we're young
hurrisome
flash
snatch up
cursory
⠟⠅
shoot
dart
hie
dash
clap
scoot
snatch
scud
on the jump
snap
rough
most Rikki-Tik
quick-tempered
with dispatch
agitable
affrettando
hot-hoof
quick as a wink
on the pdq
in the interim
hying
fly
speedily
in the meanwhile
tripping
semifrantic
swift
shuck
fall
like a shot
haste
hurry
blatter
forthright
swiften
rushedly
flickeringly
bundle
shift
vamoose
zippy
snell
leg it
velocious
bear-a-hand
short
furiously
like a chicken on a June bug
swift-handed
plump
flying
quick
fast
whistle-stop
precipitated
acute
rushed
quickish
hurried
deliberate
rapid
nimble-witted
accelerate
precipitate
huffy
thin-skinned
touchy
feisty
alacritous
hasty
ready
quicksmart
hurrisome
cursory
rough
most Rikki-Tik
quick-tempered
agitable
tripping
semifrantic
swift
zippy
snell
velocious
swift-handed
plump
hastily
shortly
in haste
hurriedly
quicksome
soon
affrettando
hot-hoof
speedily
forthright
rushedly
flickeringly
short
furiously
quick
hurriedness
fooster
expedience
hying
haste
hurry
fall over one's feet
hustle
jot down
jot
besharp
wallop
press
flash
snatch up
shoot
dart
hie
dash
clap
scoot
snatch
scud
snap
fly
shuck
fall
blatter
swiften
bundle
shift
vamoose
leg it
adj
- hurried and brief
- (of surfaces) conducive to rapid speeds
- resistant to destruction or fading
- unrestrained by convention or morality
- securely fixed in place
- unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause
- (of a photographic lens or emulsion) causing a shortening of exposure time
verb
noun
adj
- acting or moving or capable of acting or moving quickly
- (used of timepieces) indicating a time ahead of or later than the correct time
- at a rapid tempo
adv
prep_phrase
adj
- Brief, quick, short.
- Of a triangle: having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- Intense, sensitive, sharp.
- Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- Urgent.
- After a letter of the alphabet: having an acute accent.
- With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- High or shrill.
- Of an angle: less than 90 degrees.
verb
noun
verb
verb
- To rush or hurry.
- To con, swindle, or deceive; especially financially.
- To obtain by illicit or forceful action.
- To be a prostitute; to exchange use of one's body for sexual purposes for money.
- To put a lot of effort into one's work.
- To dance the hustle, a disco dance.
- To sell sex; to work as a pimp.
- To bundle; to stow something quickly.
- To work.
- To play deliberately badly at a game or sport in an attempt to encourage players to challenge.
- To push someone roughly; to crowd; to jostle.
noun
adj
adj
adj
verb
- To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
- To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
- Grow; increase.
- To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
- To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
- To cause a change of velocity.
- To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
adj
- With a hasty impulse; hurried; headstrong.
- Moving with excessive speed or haste; overly hasty.
- headlong; falling steeply or vertically.
- Performed very rapidly or abruptly.
- Very steep; precipitous.
noun
- a solid that exits the liquid phase of a solution
- a product resulting from a process, event, or course of action
verb
- To separate a substance out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- To throw an object or person from a great height.
- To act too hastily; to be precipitous.
- To send violently into a certain state or condition.
- To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
- To come out of a liquid solution into solid form.
- To have water in the air fall to the ground, for example as rain, snow, sleet, or hail; be deposited as condensed droplets.
- To cause (water in the air) to condense or fall to the ground.
- To fall headlong.
prep_phrase
verb
- To rush hastily.
- To wrap up temporarily.
- To flounder, wallow.
- To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and rolling, with noise.
- To strike heavily, thrash soundly.
- To move in a rolling, cumbersome manner; to waddle.
- To trounce, beat by a wide margin.
- To eat or drink with gusto.
- To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.
noun
adj
verb
- To hasten, urge onward.
- To lay stress upon.
- To throng, crowd.
- To force into service, particularly into naval service.
- To flatten a selected area of fabric using an iron with an up-and-down, not sliding, motion, so as to avoid disturbing adjacent areas.
- To urge, beseech, entreat.
- To reduce to a particular shape or form by pressure, especially flatten or smooth.
- To compress, squeeze.
- To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it.
- To force to a certain end or result; to urge strongly.
- To try to force (something upon someone).
- To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon.
- To clasp, hold in an embrace.
- To drive or thrust by pressure, to force in a certain direction.
noun
- A printing machine.
- Pure, unfermented grape juice.
- An exercise in which weight is forced away from the body by extension of the arms or legs.
- In personology, any environmental factor that arouses a need in the individual.
- An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
- A publisher.
- The print-based media (both the people and the newspapers).
- A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy.
- An additional bet in a golf match that duplicates an existing (usually losing) wager in value, but begins even at the time of the bet.
- An enclosed storage space (e.g. closet, cupboard).
- A device used to apply pressure to an item.
verb
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- gleam or glow intermittently
- appear briefly
- display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously
- make known or cause to appear with great speed
- expose or show briefly
- protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal
- emit a brief burst of light
adj
noun
- a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
- a momentary brightness
- a short vivid experience
- a sudden brilliant understanding
- a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat)
- a gaudy outward display
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
- a bright patch of color used for decoration or identification
- a lamp for providing momentary light to take a photograph
abbrev
verb
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- kill by firing a missile
- fire a shot; release
- make a film or photograph of something
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- move quickly and violently
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- record on photographic film
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- spend frivolously and unwisely
- score
- utter fast and forcefully
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- produce buds, branches, or germinate
- give an injection to
noun
verb
- run or move very quickly or hastily
- break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over
- hurl or thrust violently
- destroy or break
- cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away
- add an enlivening or altering element to
noun
- distinctive and stylish elegance
- a quick run
- a footrace run at top speed
- a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
- the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code
- the act of moving with great haste
verb
- put quickly or forcibly
- cause to strike the air in flight
- clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
- clap one's hands together
- strike the air in flight
- strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting
- strike together so as to produce a sharp percussive noise
noun
prep_phrase
verb
- to grasp hastily or eagerly
- utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone
- separate or cause to separate abruptly
- break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
- move or strike with a noise
- close with a snapping motion
- make a sharp sound
- move with a snapping sound
- put in play with a snap
- cause to make a snapping sound
- lose control of one's emotions
- bring the jaws together
- record on photographic film
noun
- the act of catching an object with the hands
- a spell of cold weather
- tender green beans without strings that easily snap into sections
- a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger
- the noise produced by the rapid movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- a sudden sharp noise
- a sudden breaking
- the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
- an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound
- any undertaking that is easy to do
- the act of snapping the fingers; movement of a finger from the tip to the base of the thumb on the same hand
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
adj
- Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
- Turbulent.
- Crude; unrefined.
- Difficult; trying.
- Violent; not careful or subtle.
- Not polished; uncut.
- Harsh-tasting.
- Somewhat ill; sick; in poor condition.
- Unwell due to alcohol; hungover.
- Loud and hoarse; offensive to the ear; harsh; grating.
- Worn; shabby; weather-beaten.
- Not smooth; uneven.
verb
- To render rough; to roughen.
- To break in (a horse, etc.), especially for military purposes.
- To create in an approximate form.
- To endure primitive conditions.
- To roughen a horse's shoes to keep the animal from slipping.
- To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
adv
noun
- A quick sketch, similar to a thumbnail but larger and more detailed, used for artistic brainstorming.
- A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
- The unmowed part of a golf course.
- The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
- A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
- A piece inserted in a horseshoe to keep the animal from slipping.
prep_phrase
adv
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
prep_phrase
noun
verb
- move quickly or suddenly
- travel through the air; be airborne
- operate an airplane
- transport by aeroplane
- cause to fly or float
- be dispersed or disseminated
- change quickly from one emotional state to another
- pass away rapidly
- travel in an airplane
- display in the air or cause to float
- run away quickly
- travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft
- hit a fly
- decrease rapidly and disappear
adj
noun
- two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
- an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
- (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
- fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect
prep_phrase
adj
noun
- Any of various fast-flying hesperiid butterflies.
- A moth of the family Hepialidae, swift moth, ghost moth.
- A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.
- A light, collapsible reel used to hold a hank of yarn in order to wind off skeins or balls.
- The main cylinder of a carding-machine.
- Any of certain lizards of the genus Sceloporus.
verb
- To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To come as if by dropping down.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To become.
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- To be brought to the ground.
- To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To come down, to drop or descend.
noun
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- The action of a batsman being out.
- The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard
- A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- That which falls or cascades.
intj
prep_phrase
verb
- To hurry.
- To dress someone warmly.
- To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
- To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
- To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
- To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
- To sell hardware and software as a single product.
- Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
- To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
noun
- A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.
- A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
- A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
- A large amount, especially of money.
- A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
- A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
- A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
- A group of products or services sold together as a unit.
- Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.
- A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
verb
- To hurry; to move quickly.
- To change position.
- To manipulate a binary number by moving all of its digits left or right; compare rotate.
- To move the keys of a typewriter over in order to type capital letters and special characters.
- In violin-playing, to move the left hand from its original position next to the nut.
- To dispose of.
- To practice indirect or evasive methods.
- To remove the first value from an array.
- To change gears (in a car).
- To change the reality one's consciousness resides in through meditation or other means.
- To move from one place to another; to redistribute.
- To change in form or character; switch.
- To change residence; to leave and live elsewhere.
- To switch to a character entry mode for capital letters and special characters.
- To engage in sexual petting.
noun
- In violin-playing, any position of the left hand except that nearest the nut.
- A change of workers, now specifically a set group of workers or period of working time.
- An instance of the use of such a code or character.
- The act of kissing passionately.
- A type of women's undergarment of dress length worn under dresses or skirts, a slip or chemise.
- A bit shift.
- The extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
- The gear mechanism in a motor vehicle.
- A period of time in which one's consciousness resides in another reality, usually achieved through meditation or other means.
- An act of shifting; a slight movement or change.
- A control code or character used to change between different character sets.
- An infield shift.
- A simple straight-hanging, loose-fitting dress.
adj
intj
adv
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- Unawares.
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- With a negative ownership position.
- Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
prep
adj
- Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
- bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Having little duration.
- that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Of comparatively small height.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- Brittle, crumbly. (See shortbread, shortcake, shortcrust, shortening, hot short, cold-short.)
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- that is relatively close to the batsman.
- Undiluted; neat.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Doubtful of, skeptical of.
verb
- To shortchange.
- To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
- To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- To short circuit.
- To cause a short circuit in (something).
noun
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
- A short film.
- A shortstop.
- A short seller.
- An automobile; especially in crack shorts, to break into automobiles.
- A short circuit.
- A short sale or short position.
- An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
- A summary account.
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