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speed-dial

speed-dial verb: to dial using speed dial.

Verb

speed-dial (third-person singular simple present speed-dials, present participle (US) speed-dialing or (UK) speed-dialling, simple past and past participle (US) speed-dialed or (UK) speed-dialled)

  1. (transitive) To dial using speed dial.

Forms of speed-dial

third-person singular presentspeed-dials
present participle USspeed-dialing
present participle UKspeed-dialling
past participle USspeed-dialed
past USspeed-dialed
past participle UKspeed-dialled
past UKspeed-dialled

Origin of speed-dial

From speed + dial.

Questions about speed-dial

What does speed-dial mean?
Speed-dial means to dial using speed dial.
What part of speech is speed-dial?
Speed-dial is a verb.
What is the past tense of speed-dial?
The past tense of speed-dial is speed-dialed.

Words near speed-dial in the dictionary

  1. speed up
  2. speed walking
  3. speed wobble
  4. speed wobbles
  5. speed-dating
  6. speed-dial
  7. speed-dialed
  8. speed-dialing
  9. speed-dialled
  10. speed-dialling
  11. speed-dials

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Adapted from Wiktionary: speed-dial (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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