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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Posthaste

Posthaste \Post`haste\, adv. With speed or expedition; as, he traveled posthaste; to send posthaste.
--Shak.

Posthaste

Posthaste \Post`haste"\, n. Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier.
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
posthaste

1590s, from a noun (1530s) meaning "great speed," usually said to be from "post haste" instruction formerly written on letters (attested from 1530s), from post (adv.) + haste (n.). The verb post "to ride or travel with great speed" is recorded from 1550s.

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posthaste

adv. quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed n. (alternative spelling of post-haste English)

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Posthaste

Posthaste is the second studio album by the band OHMphrey, released on April 10, 2012 through Magna Carta Records. It features two additional live tracks that were recorded at Winston's in San Diego, California from a concert in 2009.

Usage examples of "posthaste".

If it was a tiny blood clot in the brain, a lesion, or some other malady of the flesh, medical science would take care of it posthaste.

Please answer posthaste as I'm in the midst of writing a rock opera with the tentative title How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.