QUICKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quicker mean? 

• QUICKER (adverb)
  The adverb QUICKER has 1 sense:

1. more quickly

  Familiarity information: QUICKER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUICKER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

More quickly

Synonyms:

faster; quicker

Pertainym:

quick (accomplished rapidly and without delay)

 Context examples 

Then jump for the topsails and spread them quick as God’ll let you—the quicker you do it the easier you’ll find it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Matt rushed in, but quicker than he was White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Mr. Holmes, why, you are even a quicker smoker than I am myself.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr Elliot, replied Mrs Smith, at that period of his life, had one object in view: to make his fortune, and by a rather quicker process than the law.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I sprang backwards, but quick as I was, those hands were quicker still.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I can well believe it,” returned Sir Nigel; “I have met no man who is quicker to follow where honor leads.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was pleased with the eagerness to arrive which had made him alter his plan, and travel earlier, later, and quicker, that he might gain half a day.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I can do the work quicker than they can teach me.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They say he’s quicker than Jem with the mufflers, but he can’t hit as hard.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So she made a fire on her hearth, and that it might burn the quicker, she lighted it with a handful of straw.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)