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quick time

noun

Military. a rate of marching in which 120 paces, each of 30 inches (76.2 centimeters), are taken in a minute.

quick time

military the normal marching rate of 120 paces to the minute Compare double time double time

First recorded in 1795–1805

The Huntsman team apparently went through all the stages of campaign death in quick-time: no money?

Steps and marchings and movements involving marchings habitually executed in quick time.

That was sufficient to set us sliding downhill, ploughing deep furrows through the soft drift and reaching the Hut in quick time.

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.

At once rhythmic taps, in exact harmony with the double quick time, were heard in the table.

Now the rascal knows that I am here, he will clear out of Colester in double quick time.

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