Usually means: Alive and deceased; swift, sluggish.
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  1. the quick and the dead: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. the quick and the dead: Merriam-Webster
  3. The Quick and the Dead (disambiguation), The Quick and the Dead (idiom), The Quick and the Dead, The quick and the dead (idiom), The quick and the dead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wikipedia (The Quick and the Dead)

noun:  a 1995 American revisionist Western film directed by Sam Raimi, and starring Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
noun:  a collection of stories by author Vincent Starrett.
noun:  an English phrase originating in William Tyndale's English translation of the New Testament, "I testifie therfore before god and before the lorde Iesu Christ which shall iudge quicke and deed at his aperynge in his kyngdom"
noun:  a 1987 American made-for-television Western film based on the 1973 novel by Louis L'Amour, directed by Robert Day and starring Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, Kenny Morrison and Matt Clark.
noun:  a 1963 war film directed by Robert Totten, set in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.


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