fast-handed

Adjective

fast-handed (comparative more fast-handed, superlative most fast-handed)

1. With hands that move very quickly.
   • I love the youthful brilliance of Jos Buttler, the chattering chutzpah of Craig Kieswetter, the studied leave of Nick Compton, the fast-handed strokeplay of James Hildreth, the tattoos of Peter Trego, the devotion to weight training of the trainer Daz Veness, even the goatee of chairman Andy Nash.2013, Andy Nash, A Year in the Life of Somerset County Cricket Club, →ISBN
   • She made a fast-handed dive and snatched the statue back, just as he was sliding it into his pocket.2011, Patricia Gaffney, Crooked Hearts, →ISBN
2. Highly efficient at improvisation.
   • Hart is not just posh but well-versed in explaining things with fast-handed diplomacy to unpleasant Johnny Foreigners without loosening his Windsor knot, often deploying that go-to Brit spook gadget, the weaponised umbrella.2015 January 26, Stuart Jeffries, “League of gentlemen: Kingsman and Britain's posh-boy spies”, in The Guardian
   • He seemed to have that kind of self-possession and ease about him, together with a certain bantering jollity, which are so natural to fast-handed and well-housed lords of the soil.2014, Samuel Bamford, Passages in the Life of a Radical, →ISBN, page 14
3. Sexually aggressive.
   • "La Bashta?" she repeated, almost getting the word right. He groaned, leaning back into the pillows, smiling. "No good . . . translation," he managed, then flipped her onto her back. The words meant roughly "hot-blooded, fast-handed woman.2013, Deidre Knight, Parallel Attraction, →ISBN
   • How she could stand up her kid sister on her birthday to sneak off with that pimple faced, horny, fast-handed Johnson kid .2009, Fort Press, One Second After
4. (obsolete) Greedy, miserly.
   • The king also being fast-handed, and loath to part With a second dowry, but chiefly being affectionate both by his nature, and out of politic considerations to continue the alliance with Spain, prevailed with the prince, though not without some reluctation, such as could be in those years, for he...1622, Francis Bacon, History of King Henry VII
   • Sir Austin Feverel, a thorough good Tory, was no game-preserver, and could be popular whenever he chose, which Sir Males Papworth, on the other side of the river,a fast-handed Whig and terror to poachers, never could be.1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC