speedy

adj

1. Proceeding with or characterized by high speed; rapid.

   “" 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.”

   “They turned out to be speedy machines and earned the sobriquet "Greyhounds", giving excellent performances on the Exeter run.”

   “After some quite speedy constructional work the line was opened to traffic on January 2, 1865.”

verb

1. (transitive)To process in a faster than normal, accelerated way.

   ““[…] the Treaty between the King and the Parliament may be speedied; and that Care may be taken, to prevent the casting of the Two Kingdoms into War and Blood.””

   “[…] for the purpose of proceeding to the immediate sale of the goods under seizure, with the view of speedying the exercise of their rights on the proceeds of the sale of the goods seized.”

2. (transitive)To apply the speedy rule in an online community (often the deletion rule); to speedy delete.

   “The guy is *not* so obviously insignificant that speedying him is appropriate.”