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quickie

[ kwik-ee ]

noun

  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.


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

/ ˈkwɪkɪ /

noun

  1. Also called (esp Brit)quick one a speedily consumed alcoholic drink
    1. anything made, done, produced, or consumed rapidly or in haste
    2. ( as modifier )

      a quickie ceremony

      a quickie divorce



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Word History and Origins

Origin of quickie1

First recorded in 1925–30; quick + -ie

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Example Sentences

We’re in a pandemic with more isolation, and instead of men trying to make emotional connections, they want a quickie.

There was Spears’s quickie Vegas wedding in 2004, which lasted only 55 hours total.

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With its decades-long history of offering quickie hitches and divorces, marriage has long been a big business in Nevada.

And if Washington were to push the “victors” into a quickie election, the result probably would be the same, an MB victory.

Jurors are usually cautious in a circumstantial case, as was clear from the quickie nature of their verdict.

When I refused a quickie divorce on his terms, he served me with divorce papers filled with baseless complaints.

She was on her way home from one of the quickie divorce courts on Terra and was celebrating her marital emancipation.

This is a quickie Rum Tum Tiddy, without any onion, a poor, housebroken version of the original.

This authentic quickie is started by cooking the garlic in butter until the butter is melted.

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