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English
Etymology
From quick + -ie.
Pronunciation
Noun
quickie (plural quickies)
- (colloquial) Something made or done swiftly.
- (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] today, in an age of permissiveness when the sexual encounter is often nothing more than a ‘quickie’ in some dark corner of an office?
- (cricket) A fast bowler.
Derived terms
Translations
something made or done swiftly