quickly

quickly
adv
1. swiftly, speedily, rapidly, fast; promptly, without delay, with dispatch, expeditiously; posthaste, apace, hotfoot, with celerity, hastily, helter-skelter, pell-mell, hurry-scurry, slapdash, head over heels; abruptly, briskly; hurriedly, headlong, precipitately, full-tilt, at full speed, at full gallop, tantivy, in full sail.
2. immediately, instantaneously, on the spur of the moment, on the spot, on the instant, straightway; presently, directly, forthwith, very soon, Archaic. anon, erelong; instantly, in a flash, in a wink, in a zip, in less than no time, in no time, in nothing flat, in no time flat, in short order, in two shakes of a lamb's tail, on the double, Sl. pronto; suddenly, overnight

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