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Webster 1828 Edition


Post-haste

POST-HASTE

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Noun.
Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier.

POST-HASTE

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adv.
With speed or expedition. He traveled post-haste, that is, by an ellipsis, with post-haste.

Definition 2024


post-haste

post-haste

See also: posthaste and post haste

English

Adverb

post-haste (not comparable)

  1. Alternative spelling of posthaste

Synonyms

Noun

post-haste (uncountable)

  1. A great hurry.
    • 1602 : Hamlet by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
      "And this, I take it,
      Is the main motive of our preparations
      The source of this our watch, and the chief head
      Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."