WordNet
adj. adept at changing from one thing to another especially changing costumes; "a quick-change artist" [syn: quick-change(a)]
Usage examples of "quick-change".
A heavy barrel was fitted, with a carrying handle and quick-change facility, the forestock of the rifle being replaced with a slotted metal guard and grip.
Logan, reeling, blindsided by Melody the quick-change artist, sexiest witch in Salem, as he followed her and Gardner down the hall.
That was where Jerry Wanless booked incompetent dog acts, jugglers who were on the booze, dirty comedians, single women without charm or wit, singers with nodes on their vocal chords, conjurors who dropped things, quick-change artistes who looked the same in all their impersonations, and a crowd of carnies like Willard and some of the other Talent from the World of Wonders.
No, what drove Kara could be easily found in the blinks of delighted surprise on the faces of the audiencewhether they were two-dozen of her relatives at Thanksgiving dinner (a show complete with quick-change routines and a levitating cat, though without the trapdoor her father wouldn't let her cut in the living room floor) or the students and parents at the high school senior talent show, where she did two encores to a standing ovation.
In Dianetics, you can see valences turn on and off in people and change with a rapidity which would be awesome to a quick-change artist.