1) Before the usual time 2) Better, to an impatient boss 3) Certain frontiersman 4) Cornhusker archrival 5) Cornhusker rival 6) Earlier 7) Fort sill resident 8) Garth brooks, notably 9) In a more timely fashion 10) In less time 11) It may be better than later 12) Jayhawk rival 13) Later alternative 1) Earlier 2) Okie 3) Preferably 
• (n.) In the western United States, one who settles on government land before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain the prior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land is opened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely or anticipates another in acting in order to gain an unfair advantage.Sooner:...
a colloquial name for settler in the Oklahoma Country, so-called because they sometimes moved into the territory before it was officially opened for settlement
Soon'er noun In the western United States, one who settles on government land before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain the prior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land is opened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely or anticipates another in acting ...
Sooner is navy slang for a shirker.
[adv] - comparatives of `soon` or `early`
adverb comparatives of `soon` or `early`; `Come a little sooner, if you can`; `came earlier than I expected`