quick-and-dirty

American  

adjective

1. Informal. slipshod.

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noun

1. Slang. greasy spoon.

Etymology

Origin of quick-and-dirty

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Here’s the quick-and-dirty on how to start practicing critical ignoring in the year ahead:

From The Wall Street Journal

The “quick-and-dirty” method of meteorite identification persists because “not everybody cares about magnetic fields like Ben Weiss does,” says Carl Agee, the meteoriticist at the University of New Mexico who first determined Black Beauty hailed from Mars.

From Science Magazine

If you need the quick-and-dirty on Big Tech's preeminent New Right libertarian — and without a doubt the leading gay conservative of our time — look no further.

From Salon

Here's the quick-and-dirty rundown on everything you need to know about tech politics this week.

From Salon

A few months ago I looked at the “misery index” — the sum of unemployment and inflation, originally suggested by Arthur Okun as a quick-and-dirty summary of the state of the economy.

From Seattle Times