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quicks

quicks is the plural of quick.

quicks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of quick.

Meaning of quick

Noun

quick (plural quicks)

  1. Raw or sensitive flesh, especially that underneath finger and toe nails.
  2. Plants used in making a quickset hedge
    • The works […] are curiously hedged with quick.1641, John Evelyn, diary entry September 1641
  3. The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible to serious injury or keen feeling.
    • This test nippeth, […] this toucheth the quick.1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached at Stamford, 9 October 1550
  4. (archaic, with-definite-article) Synonym of living (“those who are alive”).
    • the quick and the dead
    Synonyms:
    living
    Antonyms:
    dead, deceased, departed
  5. Quitchgrass.
    • Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet,
      Rings Eden thro' the budded quicks1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LXXXVIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC
  6. A fast bowler.

See all 25 meanings of quick

Proper noun capitalized: Quicks

Quicks

  1. (plural) plural of Quick

Questions about quicks

What is quicks the plural of?
Quicks is the plural of quick.
What part of speech is quicks?
Quicks is a proper noun.

Words near quicks in the dictionary

  1. quickmires
  2. quickmud
  3. quickness
  4. quicknesses
  5. quickplay
  6. quicks
  7. quicksand
  8. quicksandlike
  9. quicksands
  10. quicksandy
  11. quicksave

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quicks (page history and authors); Quicks (page history and authors); quick (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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