double-time
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- To march at double time.
- To order troops to march at double time.“...after ten or fifteen minutes of preparation, he stopped the artillery and instructed Corporal Lamb to double-time his platoon to the intermediate knoll under cover of fire from the machine guns. — "Combat Actions in Korea" (1954) http//www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/korea/30-2/30-2_con.htm”