quick match
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.75 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pyrotechnic fuse consisting of a cotton string, coated with black powder, confined in a paper tube.
noun
An unranked match in a format that is more casual compared to the game's skirmish and competitive modes.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quick, match.
Example Sentences
- "Cast off all the covers of the fire barrels, and hang the quick match loose over their sides, and place leaders of quick match from the reeds into the barrels, and from thence into the vent of the chambers, [..]"
- "The Recent Chinese quick match has another property that may cause it to appear to be especially fierce burning."
- "Hi, Whenever I try to play a quickmatch, I always find that someone leaves the game basically as soon as the game has started. This pi**es me off, wondered if anyone else was having the same prob."
- "Though the bug hinders players attempting to use the optimatch option, they can still readily play the game online using the quick match mode."
- "In quick match, players choose their characters before beginning a match, and the matchmaker assembles two opposing teams of players using these preselected characters."