double-quick

1. 1.

   (of a marching cadence) very quick

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Questions about double-quick

What does double-quick mean?

double-quick means "(of a marching cadence) very quick".

How many syllables are in double-quick?

double-quick has 4 syllables: do-u-ble-q-uick. The stress falls on "u".

Is double-quick a common word?

double-quick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.