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How to pronounce “quick”
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Pronunciation guide for quick
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of quick with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Nir Eyal
I thought it was a good time to just check my phone real quick.
- Definition summary
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce quick
Nir Eyal

I thought it was a good time to just check my phone real quick.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “quick”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
- Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.
- Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.
- Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.
- (of people or tempers) Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.
- (archaic) Alive, living.
- (archaic, of a foetus) At the stage where it can be felt to move in the uterus.
- (now rare, archaic) Pregnant, especially at the stage where the foetus's movements can be felt; figuratively, alive with some emotion or feeling.
- (archaic, of water) Flowing, not stagnant.
- (archaic) Burning, flammable, fiery.
- (obsolete) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- (mining, of a vein of ore) productive; not "dead" or barren
- (crosswording) Not cryptic.
- Being a distinctively sensitive kind of glaciomarine clay that may behave like a watery fluid under stress.
- [Adverb]
- Quickly, in a quick manner.
- Answer quickly.
- [Noun]
- Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
- Plants used in making a quickset hedge
- The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
- (with "the", archaic) Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
- Quitchgrass.
- (cricket) A fast bowler.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury in nitric acid.
- (transitive, archaic, poetic) To quicken.
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