About "Do something really quick" [duplicate]

Solution 1:

Your mistake is thinking that quick can only do the job of an adjective. In fact, the word quick can function as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb in English. The OED says of it the following, with selected citations:

C. adv. 1. a. = quickly. _{^{This use is now usually avoided in educated speech and writing, though found in some standard colloq. constructions.}}

• 1788 Charlotte Smith Emmeline (1816) IV. 55, ― I am going··to Havre, whence I shall get the quickest to Southampton.
• 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge x, ― The person who’d go quickest, is a sort of natural.
• 1865 Tennyson On a Mourner iii, ― Nature··on thy heart a finger lays, Saying ‘Beat quicker’.
• 1874 Green Short Hist. ii. 88 ― A peaceful invasion··followed quick on the conquest of the Norman soldiery.
• 1936 C. Sandburg People, Yes 83 ― Some men dress quick, others take as much time as a woman.
• 1968 Listener 11 July 38/3 ― I’ve never known a journey go so quick.
• 1979 Times 23 Nov. 5/4 ― The brash and selfish values of a ‘get rich quick’ society.

There is also this adverbial use:

2. Used imperatively. (In some cases perh. representing the adj. in the phr. be quick!) See also quick march ².

• 1596 Shaks. Merch. V. ii. ix. 1 ― Quick, quick I pray thee, draw the curtain strait.
• 1604 Shaks. Oth. V. i. 3 ― Quicke, quicke, feare nothing; Ile be at thy Elbow.
• 1822 Shelley tr. Calderon iii. 176 ― Livia, quick, bring my cloak.
• 1852 Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom’s C. v. 31 ― Get on your clothes, old man, quick!
• 1872 Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 147 ― Nay-quick! the proof to prove me.

There are lots of seeming-adjectives that can be used adverbially. For example, you can have fast women who run fast.

You should probably read this answer on the nature of adverbial constructions.