speedy
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(transitive, Wikimedia jargon) To apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); to speedy delete.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“" Without further parley, upon their knees they fell most devoutly, and for helpe on heaven never ceased extensively to intercessionate God, for his speedie recoverie.”
— 1594, Thomas Nash, “The Terrors of the Night”, in Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, volume I, published 1807, →OCLC, page 270:
“They turned out to be speedy machines and earned the sobriquet "Greyhounds", giving excellent performances on the Exeter run.”
— 1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774:
“After some quite speedy constructional work the line was opened to traffic on January 2, 1865.”
— 1961 October, 'Voyageur', “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 598: