Usually means: Quickly, with great speed, urgency.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. posthaste: Merriam-Webster
  2. posthaste: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. posthaste: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. posthaste: Collins English Dictionary
  5. posthaste: Wordnik
  6. posthaste: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. posthaste: Wiktionary
  8. posthaste: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. posthaste: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. posthaste: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. posthaste: Dictionary.com
  12. posthaste: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Posthaste: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Posthaste: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. posthaste: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Posthaste: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. posthaste: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. posthaste: FreeDictionary.org
  19. Posthaste: The Word Detective
  20. post(-)haste, posthaste: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. posthaste: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. posthaste: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  Quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed.
▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of post-haste [A great hurry.]

Similar:
overfast, superfast, overspeedily, amain, feverishly, lightning fast, furiously, rushingly, veloce, full tilt, more...

Types:
quickly, promptly, expeditiously, swiftly, speedily, more...
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Similar:
overfast, superfast, overspeedily, amain, feverishly, lightning fast, furiously, rushingly, veloce, full tilt, more...

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quickly, promptly, expeditiously, swiftly, speedily, more...



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