quickie

American  

[kwik-ee] / ˈkwɪk i /

noun

• quickies
  plural

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, especially a hurried sexual encounter.

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adjective

1. done, made, assembled, etc., quickly or hurriedly.

   I'll fix a quickie meal after I get home from the office.

2. achieved or acquired with a minimum of formality.

   a quickie divorce.

quickie British  

/ ˈkwɪkɪ /

noun

1. Also called (esp Brit): quick one. a speedily consumed alcoholic drink

2. 1. anything made, done, produced, or consumed rapidly or in haste

   2. ( as modifier )

      a quickie divorce

      a quickie ceremony

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• quickies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of quickie

First recorded in 1925–30; quick + -ie

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

quickie quickies

Deeply saddened by his passing, as many millennials were, I walked to the bathroom for a quickie corporate cry.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2026

Lately, she’s been teaching classes on making bagels — not the quickie recipe, but the overnight version.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 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

Speed up the decades-long process of climate change and you get “The Day After Tomorrow,” the 2004 film that unleashed a risible quickie apocalypse onto the screen.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

Then he went to Reno, Nevada, and got himself a quickie divorce.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

“The Weekend,” premiering Sunday, is intended as a polished, genre-bending departure from Nollywood quickies, and it screens in the mature-themed Midnight section of the festival, which runs Wednesday through June 16.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2024

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