post-haste adv : as fast as possible; with all possible haste; "send it to me post-haste"

English

Etymology

From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.

Pronunciation

• a RP /ˌpəʊstˈheɪst/
• a US /ˌpoʊstˈheɪst/

Adverb

1. quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed

   It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste.

Synonyms

• sense quickly ASAP, quickly

Quotations

• 1946 — Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, Ch. 17

  "Sasi cannot last through the night." These words from his physician, and the spectacle of my friend, now reduced almost to a skeleton, sent me posthaste to Serampore.

Alternative forms

• post-haste
• post haste

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