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quickie

/kwik-ee/US // ˈkwɪk i //UK // (ˈkwɪkɪ) //

快捷,快手,迅速,快餐

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a book, story, movie, etc., usually trivial in quality, requiring only a short time to produce.
    • : a quickly consumed alcoholic drink.
    • : anything taking only a short time, especially a hurried sexual encounter.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : done, made, assembled, etc., quickly or hurriedly: I'll fix a quickie meal after I get home from the office.
    • : achieved or acquired with a minimum of formality: a quickie divorce.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.