quick

Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.

I ran to the station – but I wasn't quick enough.

He's a quick runner.

Occurring in a short time; happening or done rapidly.

That was a quick meal.

Veronica Ripley, 32, often speaks to friends about the role that video games played in her trans awakening: “I would try to explain it away, saying that I was playing the girl character because she had a smaller hitbox or quicker kill animations,” she said, referring to in-game advantages.

Lively, fast-thinking, witty, intelligent.

You have to be very quick to be able to compete in ad-lib theatrics.

Mentally agile, alert, perceptive.

My father is old but he still has a quick wit.

Easily aroused to anger; quick-tempered.

She has a very quick temper.

He is wont to be rather quick of temper when tired.

Quickly, in a quick manner.

Get rich quick.

Come here, quick!

Answer quickly.

Quick, how do you spell 'Krabs'?

Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.

Plants used in making a quickset hedge

The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.

The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.

This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.

How feebly and unlike themselves they reason when they come to the quick of the difference!

Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).

the quick and the dead

Quitchgrass.

Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks