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Quick-change   /kwɪk-tʃeɪndʒ/   Listen
Quick-change

adjective
1.
Adept at changing from one thing to another especially changing costumes.





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"Quick-change" Quotes from Famous Books



... they stood looking around, still a little dazed. "These people are sure quick-change artists! First they try to feed you to their gods, then they save you from almost as bad a fate. Dizzy, I ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various
... Hargrave falls in love with Stella, who in turn reciprocates his passion up to almost the last page in the book, when, having come to the edge of the precipice and made every preparation for her leap into the gulf of elopement, she does a mental quick-change and walks away as the contented betrothed of Another. So Hargrave, making the best of a good job, rejoins Mrs. H.; and one may suppose that, if any more distressed damsels fall off omnibuses in his presence, he will prudently "let be." You may ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, February 2, 1916 • Various


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