quick sticks adv.
hurrying, evading, hurriedly.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Nature and Human Nature II 23: Sambo, clar out od dis dinin room quick sticks. | |
 | Northants Mercury 2 Oct. n.p.: [illiterate letter for post of chapel-keeper] I offers myself for plase [...] If i was get Capel I comes a member quick stcks. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Aus. Sl. Dict. 64: Quick-sticks, to start off quickly. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Boy’s Own Paper 15 Dec. 167: A gun was fired, warning all on leave to return on board quick-sticks. | |
| Und. Speaks n.p.: Quicksticks, to escape from the law. | |
| Beyond Black 154: Some amateur from up the M6 wil be straight in there, quicksticks. |
In phrases
speedily, hurriedly.
| Bell’s Life in London 21 Feb. 3/2: In quicksticks put his head in Chancery, / Fibbing away in style. | |
| Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 25 Mar. 4/1: I think you are gammoning me, or I would tell you in quick sticks. | |
| Bell’s Life in Sydney 20 Jan. 3/2: [He] amputated his mahogany in double quick sticks. | |
| Kentish Mercury 4 Sept. 7/3: I stood none of their nonsense, and returned their favours in quick sticks. | |
| Wadsley Jack 21: I bid good by, i’ precious quick sticks. | |
| Nonsense and Tomfoolery 12: He [...] had the flag up in quick-sticks. | |
| Cheltenham Mercury 26 Aug. 4/7: If you are not out of here in quick sticks, I’ll have you locked up. | |
| Squatter’s Dream 204: We should have a note to settle our little account in quick sticks. | |
| Shields Dly Gaz. 27 Feb. 4/1: I should have been after it ‘like quick sticks’. | |
| Richmond Planet (VA) 21 Dec. 8/3: In quick sticks there came forth not two boys merely, but three. | |
| Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 17: In quick sticks = rapidly. | |
| Dly Herald 12 May 6/2: It was all over in quick sticks and all the men [...] went back to work. | |
| Manchester Eve. News 15 Dec. 13/4: [advert] No matter what class you are looking for, Blakes have it — or can get it in quick sticks in receipt of details. |