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Definition of "post-haste" [post-haste]

  • Alternative spelling of posthaste. (adverb)
  • A great hurry. (noun)

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Use "post-haste" in a sentence
  • "Truly, somebody needs to post this stuff on everything from billboards to buses (and perhaps even urinal cakes) and post-haste."
  • "How many adult African American women will shed a tear of joy, as I did, remembering a very different world where Saturday mornings were spent fidgeting on a kitchen chair in mortal dread of the pressing comb and black hair, rather than a crowning glory, was a burden to be fried, dyed and laid to the side post-haste."
  • "At the time, I was beating myself over the sympathetics with Racing in the Rain, but I look at the cover with the empty shoes and think, "Well, I've got to read P&P&Z, because I've got to return it post-haste, but after that ...""
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