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quickie

/ˈkwɪki/

quickie noun: something made or done swiftly.

Noun

quickie (plural quickies)

  1. (colloquial) Something made or done swiftly.
  2. (broadly, colloquial) A brief sexual encounter.
    • 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.1971, Neal Cassady, The First Third, City Lights, page 136
    • 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?2005 [1994], Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso, →ISBN, page 89
  3. A fast bowler.

quickie meaning in Tamil

quickie in Tamil

மீக்குறுந்திரைப்படம், குறும்படம்

Forms of quickie

pluralquickies

Plural of quickie: quickies

Origin of quickie

From quick + -ie.

Words formed from quickie

Words that rhyme with quickie

18 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about quickie

What does quickie mean?
Quickie means something made or done swiftly.
What is quickie in Tamil?
Quickie in Tamil is மீக்குறுந்திரைப்படம், குறும்படம். See Quickie meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is quickie?
Quickie is a noun.
How do you pronounce quickie?
Quickie is pronounced /ˈkwɪki/.
What is the plural of quickie?
The plural of quickie is quickies.

Words near quickie in the dictionary

  1. quickfire
  2. quickfrozen
  3. quickhanded
  4. quickhatch
  5. quickhatches
  6. quickie
  7. quickies
  8. quicking
  9. quickish
  10. quickle
  11. quickled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: quickie (page history and authors); quickie (Tamil 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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