Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.
Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
Plants used in making a quickset hedge
The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.
To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
To quicken.
A surname.
From Middle English quik, quic, from Old English cwic (“alive”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”), from *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”),...
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That was a quick meal.
Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.
Answer quickly.
Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?
The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.
I rose as if quicked by a spur I was bound to obey.