Lovely Little Lexemes
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Quicksticks
Quicksticks \KWIK-stiks\ , adverb;
1.
Colloquial
: Quickly, without delay
This word dates to the 1860's as a shortened version of
in quick sticks
("quickly, without delay").
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