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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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
Mr. Corry followed with a quickie book of his own, “The Manchester Affair.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
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
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