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View synonyms for quick time
quick time
noun
- Military. a rate of marching in which 120 paces, each of 30 inches (76.2 centimeters), are taken in a minute.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of quick time1
First recorded in 1795–1805
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Example Sentences
The Huntsman team apparently went through all the stages of campaign death in quick-time: no money?
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Steps and marchings and movements involving marchings habitually executed in quick time.
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That was sufficient to set us sliding downhill, ploughing deep furrows through the soft drift and reaching the Hut in quick time.
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On the return trip they would sit down on the low braces of the sledge, and the horses would make quick time with no load to pull.
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At once rhythmic taps, in exact harmony with the double quick time, were heard in the table.
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Now the rascal knows that I am here, he will clear out of Colester in double quick time.
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