quickie

  • 11quickie — noun (C) informal 1 something done or made quickly and easily: This recipe is a favourite quickie for when I m in a hurry. 2 humorous a sexual act done in a hurry quickie adjective: a quickie divorce …

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  • 12quickie — /kwik ee/, Informal. n. 1. a book, story, movie, etc., usually trivial in quality, requiring only a short time to produce. 2. a quickly consumed alcoholic drink. 3. anything taking only a short time, esp. a hurried sexual encounter. adj. 4. done …

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  • 13quickie —    1. a drink of intoxicant    Another form of quick one:     And maybe we d better break open the bottle for a quickie. (Sanders, 1980)    2. a single act of copulation    Not necessarily with a prostitute:     Stone had never been fastidious… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 14quickie — noun Quickie is used before these nouns: ↑divorce …

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  • 15Quickie — Qui|ckie [engl. kwiki] der, auch das; s, s <aus engl. quickie »auf die Schnelle Gemachtes, schnelle Sache« zu quick »flink, schnell«> (ugs.) 1. etwas, was schnell, in verkürzter Form erledigt, abgehandelt o. Ä. wird. 2. schnelles Ratespiel… …

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  • 16quickie — See a quickie …

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  • 17quickie — Noun. A brief sexual liason. E.g. I m off home for my lunch break, for a quickie with the wife, it beats eating in the company cafeteria …

    English slang and colloquialisms

  • 18quickie — [ˈkwɪki] noun [C] informal something that you do quickly quickie adj …

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  • 19quickie — quick•ie [[t]ˈkwɪk i[/t]] n. 1) inf something produced, done, or enjoyed in only a short time 2) cvb inf accomplished quickly with minimal formality: a quickie meal[/ex] • Etymology: 1925–30 …

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  • 20quickie — /ˈkwɪki/ (say kwikee) noun Colloquial 1. something produced in a short space of time, often on a low budget and of inferior quality: *He … is midway through a book – a quickie , he says, a mere 100,000 words – about Barcelona –advertiser, 1990. 2 …