quickie

Meanings

1. 1nouncountable

   Something done or made quickly with little time or effort.

   Grammar: Countable: a quickie, the quickie, quickies.

   Patterns

   • a quickie
   • have a quickie
   • do something as a quickie

   We grabbed a quickie lunch between meetings.

   The interview was just a quickie, only five minutes.

   He wrote a quickie article for the school paper.

2. 2nouncountableinformal

   A brief sexual encounter, often casual.

   Grammar: Countable and informal; often used with 'have'.

   Patterns

   • have a quickie
   • a quickie with someone

   They had a quickie before the party.

   The film shows a quickie in a hotel room.

Word forms

Common combinations

quickie lunch

Let's have a quickie lunch at the café.

quickie interview

The reporter did a quickie interview with the star.

quickie divorce

They wanted a quickie divorce in Las Vegas.

quickie meal

I made a quickie meal of pasta and sauce.

Synonyms and how they differ

brief

Use 'brief' for something short in duration; 'quickie' is more informal and often suggests something done hastily.

fast

'Fast' simply means quick; 'quickie' is a noun and implies a rushed or casual nature.

Practice

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