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Jack Robinson

British  

noun

  1. extremely quickly or suddenly

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Own-goals from Jack Robinson and Anis Ben Slimane at Bramall Lane gave Luton the points in the game between two teams battling to avoid relegation.

From Washington Times Dec. 26, 2023

Jack Robinson, 17, had tickets to see both movies with friends Saturday.

From Seattle Times Jul. 21, 2023

Jack Robinson said: "There was just water all over. It got higher than the safety gate."

From BBC Jan. 16, 2023

When Jack Robinson changed modern baseball forever on April 15, 1947, by taking the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the future Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith was two months shy of his third birthday.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2022

Both of them start real, real small and then ... woop, zoop, sloop ... before you can say Jack Robinson they’ve gone and grown a lot bigger than you ever thought they could.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

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