quickie

[ kwik-ee ]

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noun

a book, story, movie, etc., usually trivial in quality, requiring only a short time to produce.
a quickly consumed alcoholic drink.

anything taking only a short time, especially a hurried sexual encounter.

adjective

done, made, assembled, etc., quickly or hurriedly: I'll fix a quickie meal after I get home from the office.
achieved or acquired with a minimum of formality: a quickie divorce.

Origin of quickie

First recorded in 1925–30; quick + -ie

Words Nearby quickie

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How to use quickie in a sentence

We’re in a pandemic with more isolation, and instead of men trying to make emotional connections, they want a quickie.
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There was Spears’s quickie Vegas wedding in 2004, which lasted only 55 hours total.
Why Britney Spears’s fans are convinced she’s being held captive | Constance Grady | November 11, 2020 | Vox
With its decades-long history of offering quickie hitches and divorces, marriage has long been a big business in Nevada.
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And if Washington were to push the “victors” into a quickie election, the result probably would be the same, an MB victory.
Leslie H. Gelb on the Democracy-Elections Trap in Egypt | Leslie H. Gelb | July 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Jurors are usually cautious in a circumstantial case, as was clear from the quickie nature of their verdict.
The Media’s Casey Anthony Shame | Howard Kurtz | July 5, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST

When I refused a quickie divorce on his terms, he served me with divorce papers filled with baseless complaints.
My Fight to Stop My Divorce | Beverly Willett | August 28, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
She was on her way home from one of the quickie divorce courts on Terra and was celebrating her marital emancipation.
Lone Star Planet | Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
This is a quickie Rum Tum Tiddy, without any onion, a poor, housebroken version of the original.
The Complete Book of Cheese | Robert Carlton Brown
This authentic quickie is started by cooking the garlic in butter until the butter is melted.
The Complete Book of Cheese | Robert Carlton Brown

British Dictionary definitions for quickie

quickie

/ (ˈkwɪkɪ) /

nouninformal

Also called (esp Brit): quick one a speedily consumed alcoholic drink
- anything made, done, produced, or consumed rapidly or in haste
- (as modifier): a quickie divorce; a quickie ceremony

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