quickie
Americannoun
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quickies
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a book, story, movie, etc., usually trivial in quality, requiring only a short time to produce.
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a quickly consumed alcoholic drink.
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anything taking only a short time, especially a hurried sexual encounter.
adjective
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done, made, assembled, etc., quickly or hurriedly.
I'll fix a quickie meal after I get home from the office.
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achieved or acquired with a minimum of formality.
a quickie divorce.
noun
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Also called (esp Brit): quick one. a speedily consumed alcoholic drink
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anything made, done, produced, or consumed rapidly or in haste
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( as modifier )
a quickie divorce
a quickie ceremony
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We have a brief couple of weeks to make jokes about the candidates in South Carolina’s quickie Republican Senate primary, and we intend to use them.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026
Lately, she’s been teaching classes on making bagels — not the quickie recipe, but the overnight version.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
“They’d rather have this quickie ceremony,” she said, “and spend the money on a world cruise for a honeymoon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
And so in September, Marie went down to Tijuana to get a quickie divorce, which was very popular back then.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2023
So my baba and maman made the four-hour drive to Reno, Nevada, to secure a quickie divorce.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
They don’t do quickies or distraction, but they also don’t do lightness and laughter.
From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2020
Having learned his trade making low-budget quickies for Roger Corman, Demme has always celebrated American junk culture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
A London film in the tradition of so many second features and exploitation quickies – but with, in the spirit of my project, a strong whiff of refracted autobiography.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2013
His best work helming Warner Brother’s Pre-Code quickies was 25 years behind him, not to mention a guest shot at the “Wizard of Oz.”
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2012
“Last Man Standing,” Mr. Allen’s retro-man new sitcom, likes to do this, but only for easy quickies.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2011
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