| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Rapidness of movement or activity: celerity, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, haste, hurry, hustle, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness, swiftness. See FAST. 2. Rate of motion or performance: pace, tempo, velocity. Informal : clip1. See FAST. | | VERB: | 1. To move swiftly: bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, sail, scoot, scour2, shoot, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal : hotfoot, rip. Slang : barrel, highball. Chiefly British : nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See MOVE. 2. To increase the speed of. Also used with up: accelerate, expedite, hasten, hurry, hustle, quicken, step up. See FAST.
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