Meaning

1 senses
  1. (dated, formal, not comparable)Quickly, as fast as someone travelling post; with great speed.

    It is imperative that you finish your task posthaste.

Origin

From the former instruction on letters ‘haste, post, haste’, later reinterpreted as a comp

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

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