The flowering plant Brunfelsia pauciflora. / (US, slang, obsolete, countable) A bump in a road. / (historical) A kind of bonnet for women, fashionable in the 19th century.

plural of quick-change artist

(Ghana, Kenya) illicitly manufactured alcohol; moonshine

(obsolete, military slang) Dysentery, as experienced by soldiers in the United States Civil War.

Synonym of police tactical unit (PTU) / tactical squad / SWAT / Synonym of drug abuse response team / Synonym of rapid response team

A mechanism for attaching a wheel to a bicycle, consisting of a rod threaded on one end and with a lever-operated cam assembly on the other. The rod is inserted into the hollow axle of the wheel, a special nut is threaded on, and the lever is closed to tighten the cam and secure the wheel to the fork.

plural of double-quick

Alternative form of a short drop and a sudden stop

plural of kiss-me-quick

A phrase containing every letter of the English alphabet (a pangram), used to demonstrate typographical fonts etc.