quickie

quick +‎ -ie

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwɪki/

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• Rhymes: -ɪki

quickie (plural quickies)

1. (colloquial) Something made or done swiftly.
2. (colloquial, by extension) A brief sexual encounter.

   Hyponym: nooner

   • 1971, Neal Cassady, The First Third, City Lights, page 136:

     We had a quickie; I didn’t come & was only telling of the future where there was better bed fucks & us living contentedly as we walked slowly across town again to her home.

   • 2005 [1994], Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso, →ISBN, page 89:

     Why talk about courtly love [l'amour courtois]^[sic] today, in an age of permissiveness when the sexual encounter is often nothing more than a ‘quickie’ in some dark corner of an office?

3. (cricket) A fast bowler.

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