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quickie colloq.|ˈkwɪkɪ|
Also quickey, quicky.
[f. quick a. + -y6, -ie.]
1. a. A cinematographic film that is made quickly and cheaply. See also quota quickie s.v. quota n. 4.
1926Amer. Mercury Dec. 465/1 Motion pictures which are ground out wholesale by the studios at the rate of one a week are called quickies. 1937Times 13 Nov. 8/1 It is not handicapped, as the quickie is, by the expenditure of {pstlg}1 a foot. 1946Sun (Baltimore) 4 Oct. 12/1 The possibilities of the subject are barely touched on in ‘Down Missouri Way’, for this is a quickie, made..on a limited budget. 1958Observer 16 Mar. 15/2 Those early wartime quickies. 1961John o' London's 14 Sept. 307/4 An equally pleasant semi-amateur quicky, One More River. 1977Time 22 Aug. 43/3 Producer Charles Band plans to return by Christmas with another quickie titled Laser Blast.
b. In various extended and transf. senses: anything produced or carried out quickly.
1940Washington Post 6 July 5/7 The publishers have their firecrackers, too. They call them ‘quickies’. They are books pushed through the presses to meet the headlines of the day, to go off with a bang, even if they are but rubbish in the grass when the holiday is over. 1941B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? x. 187, I may not have time to see you again. This trip is one of those quickies. 1942Gen 1 Sept. 14/1 Then he [sc. a fighter pilot] ‘screams downhill’ and sends the German into the ‘drink’ with a ‘quickie’. 1943Newsweek 8 Feb. 56/1 Some observers interpreted the growing trend toward ‘quickies’—undeclared strikes in the form of work stoppages for a few hours or a day or two—as the rank and file's way of spurring their leaders to a crackdown on the WLB for more money. 1944Sun (Baltimore) 19 July 22/8 It [sc. a meeting] looked like ‘one of those quickies which the Mayor held in his office’. 1948Variety 25 Aug. 54/1 Deitz, due back by air from a quickie to Paris last week. 1950W. Hammond Cricketers' School xvi. 151 Close was bowling right-arm off-spinners, and ‘quickies’ with the new ball. 1952Word Study Feb. 8/1 In a publicity release Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., describes one of its Fall books, Richard G. Baumhoff's That Dammed Missouri, as follows: ‘Though the appearance of this book could not be better timed, it is not what in publishing circles is called a ‘quicky’ (or, ‘quickie’)—that is, a book written and rolled off the presses hot on the heels of a national news event.’ 1957Spectator 15 Mar. 341/1, I think we've just got time for a quickie, and it's a real tickler from Mr. Bumple, of Bedford. 1958[see library1 3]. 1969A. Glyn Dragon Variation v. 142 Debbie had been keen on a Mexican divorce, a quickie in Mexico City followed by a honeymoon in Acapulco. 1970Times 13 Jan. 8/3 The usual mishmash of buzzers, bonus points and quickies to confuse the looker-on. 1971Petticoat 17 July 38/3 Here's a quicky for you when you get a blank spot about what to make for that summertime snack or light supper. 1975R. H. Rimmer Premar Experiments ii. 210 Yesterday they were asking some of the girls if they were hookers or ‘hos’. Kathy told Mohammed that a tough Irish kid offered her ten dollars for a ‘quickie’.
c. A rapidly-taken alcoholic drink; a short drink.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 58 Quickie, a drink taken quickly. 1942Berry & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §101/4 Cocktail names of slang and facetious origin..quickie. 1943S. Lewis Gideon Planish xv. 143, I guess that calls for a drink. Let's make it a quickie, because I got to go out shopping with George. 1947B. Marshall Red Danube iii. 25 ‘I could do with a quicky’... Lined along the bar the other high ups..were having quickies too. 1959H. Hobson Mission Ho. Murder iii. 21 Have you finished with the bottle?.. Give it to the musicians, there's just about three quickies. 1970H. McLeave Question of Negligence xxiv. 220 ‘Drink?’ Conway-Smith asked. ‘Just a quickie,’ she replied. 1974P. Haines Tea at Gunter's xv. 156 Are you in the bar, dear?.. Ronald and I just dropped in for a quickie—we're on our way back from a party.
2. Cricket. A fast bowler.
1934Evening News 21 June 1/1 Whatever chance England may or may not have, it will be a better one if there are two or three ‘quickeys’ in the side in any of the remaining Tests. 1963R. Gilchrist Hit me for Six i. 15 It just happened that the first team wanted a ‘quickie’. 1966B. Johnston Armchair Cricket 1966 108 Quickie, a slang term for a fast bowler. 1977News of World 17 Apr. 20/8 Their other unknown quickie, Len Pascoe.., isn't as fast as Lillee or Thomson.
3. attrib. or as adj.
1927Daily Express 12 Dec. 13 The most eminent ‘quickie’ producer is Phil Goldstone, who can make a full-length film..in eight days. 1936Sun (Baltimore) 21 Dec. 8/2 In recent months there have been scores of ‘sit-down’ or ‘quickie’ strikes in the automobile factories. 1940Common Sense Mar. 20/1 [Cordell Hull] found his way to a quicky law school in the county. 1944Sun (Baltimore) 15 Nov. 11/2 Another quickie bridge and the town was ours. 1959M. Dolinsky There is no Silence iv. 57 Virtually every model in the country lived on these quickie love affairs. 1960Guardian 27 Oct. 9/6 He made as many as eight ‘quickie’ Westerns..a year. 1969A. Glyn Dragon Variation v. 142 Joann's rumour that there now were quickie divorces in Nevada too was apparently unfounded. 1976H. Nielsen Brink of Murder ii. 19 He's kept a packed travel-bag in his office for these quickie trips. 1979Yale Alumni Mag. Apr. (Suppl.) cn14/3 The deadline conflicts with a planned quickie vacation in Puerto Rico. |