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speedies

speedies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of speedy.

Meaning of speedy

Verb

speedy (third-person singular simple present speedies, present participle speedying, simple past and past participle speedied)

  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.”1647, [uncredited], Journals of the House of Lords (House of Lords), volume 10, page 389
    Synonyms:
    speed up
  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.
    Synonyms:
    speedy delete

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Questions about speedies

What is speedies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Speedies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of speedy.

Words near speedies in the dictionary

  1. speedguns
  2. speedhump
  3. speedhumps
  4. speedied
  5. speedier
  6. speedies
  7. speediest
  8. speedilier
  9. speediliest
  10. speedily
  11. speediness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: speedies (page history and authors); speedy (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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