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quick-and-dirty

quick-and-dirty adjective: done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time.

Adjective

quick-and-dirty (comparative more quick-and-dirty, superlative most quick-and-dirty)

  1. (idiomatic) Done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time.
    • I can do a quick-and-dirty market analysis in time for the meeting tomorrow.
    Synonyms:
    slipshod

Noun

quick-and-dirty (plural quick-and-dirties)

  1. (US, slang) An inexpensive, inelegant eatery; a greasy spoon.
  2. (idiomatic) A quick, temporary fix, estimate, or the like.
    • The car broke down but we managed to do a quick-and-dirty and were back on the road in fifteen minutes.

quick-and-dirty meaning in Bengali

quick-and-dirty in Bengali

তাড়াহুড়ো করে, আনুমানিক ভাবে করা, একটি দ্রুত, অস্থায়ী সমাধান, হিসাব

Synonyms of quick-and-dirty

Forms of quick-and-dirty

Adjective
comparativemore quick-and-dirty
superlativemost quick-and-dirty
alternative formquick and dirty
Noun
pluralquick-and-dirties

Origin of quick-and-dirty

The Oxford English Dictionary shows the first usage of this phrase in 1896 in the Boston Globe to describe a place to eat. The first use meaning "slipshod" was from 1939 in the gun-slinging, American Western fiction paperback, "Bounty Guns" by Luke Short.

Questions about quick-and-dirty

What does quick-and-dirty mean?
Quick-and-dirty means done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time.
What is quick-and-dirty in Bengali?
Quick-and-dirty in Bengali is তাড়াহুড়ো করে, আনুমানিক ভাবে করা, একটি দ্রুত. See Quick-and-dirty meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is quick-and-dirty?
Quick-and-dirty can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near quick-and-dirty in the dictionary

  1. quick time events
  2. quick vinegar
  3. quick water
  4. Quick's prothrombin time
  5. quick-and-dirties
  6. quick-and-dirty
  7. quick-change artist
  8. quick-change artists
  9. quick-draw
  10. quick-draws
  11. quick-drying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quick-and-dirty (page history and authors); quick-and-dirty (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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