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made quick work of

made quick work of is the simple past and past participle of make quick work of.

Meaning of make quick work of

Verb

make quick work of (third-person singular simple present makes quick work of, present participle making quick work of, simple past and past participle made quick work of)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To accomplish a specified task easily and quickly.
    • The cupbearers made quick work of the after-dinner cleanup chores.
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To kill a specified person easily and quickly.
    • The spiders made quick work of the human soldiers.

Questions about made quick work of

What is made quick work of the simple past and past participle of?
Made quick work of is the simple past and past participle of make quick work of.

Words near made quick work of in the dictionary

  1. made over
  2. made peace
  3. made pigs and whistles of
  4. made pigs and whistles of something
  5. made pretend
  6. made quick work of
  7. made right
  8. made room
  9. made sense
  10. made shift
  11. made shit of

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Adapted from Wiktionary: made quick work of (page history and authors); make quick work of (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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