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hurrygraph U.S.|ˈhʌrɪgrɑːf, -græf|
[f. hurry n. + -graph after photograph n.]
Something done, produced, or experienced in a hurry, esp. a hasty glance or fleeting impression.
1851Oquawka (Ill.) Spectator 3 June 1/1 Just as we are ‘putting up’ this hurry graph a flat boat is passing up First street laden with several hundred sacks of grain. 1886Cassell's Family Mag. June 417/1 Idyllic countryside stations,..the town-tired traveller catches ‘hurry-graphs’ of them sufficiently tempting for him to wish that the ‘limited mail’ were a City omnibus. 1887J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 331 The traveller by rail..notices only its beauty[i.e. of the country] from the ‘hurrygraphs’ he gets. 1918Hist. Amer. Lit. I. iii. 242 Fleeting impressions, ‘dashes at life’, ephemera, ‘hurrygraphs’ were his forte. |