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sharpish

a. (context informal English) Somewhat sharp (sudden, abrupt). adv. (context informal English) rapid, soon.

Usage examples of "sharpish".

I did what I could to oblige him, though things nearly came apart when I made a sharpish turn into the parlour.

In five minutes they were all a-moving along in one mob at a pretty sharpish trot like a lot of store cattle.

We got a few knocks and scrapes against the trees, but, partly through the horses being pretty clever in their kind of way, and having sharpish eyesight of our own, we pulled through.

We were probably doing about thirty-five miles an hour when we came suddenly to a sharpish bend in the road.

I put my name card down sharpish, I can tell you, and followed to see what happened next.

If this Father Heher was sharpish and started playing professor, would Minogue be expected to spring like a loyal wolfhound and do battle with a theological brain?

So I had to get a job, pretty sharpish, and the only thing I could find was door work.

The steeplechase track was an almost one-and-a-half-mile flat circuit with sharpish turns, and the short grass gave little purchase on rock-hard ground, baked by the sun of August.

Then the bloke buggered off sharpish back to the sweatbox, leaving Kelly covered in his spare sheet.