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rq

rq is the abbreviation of real quick.

rq is the abbreviation of request.

rq is the abbreviation of ragequit.

Meaning of real quick

Adverb

real quick (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Quickly, right away.
    • ... one single car had gone by yet, he decided to go to the bathroom real quick before the early morning rush starts. As soon as he got into the outhouse and began doing his business he heard the sound of a car coming down the road. Not[…]2005 May 10, Colleen Dione Taylor-Rowe, Captured Moments in Time: And Songs from the Heart, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 83

Meaning of request

Noun

request (plural requests)

  1. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
    • I will marry her, sir, at your request.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    Synonyms:
    asking, beseech, prayer, wish
  2. A formal message requesting something.
  3. Condition of being sought after.
    • I do not doubt, but many Great and more Noble Uſes would have been made of ſuch Conqueſts or Diſcoveries, if they had fallen to the ſhare of the Greeks and Romans in thoſe Ages, when Knowledge and Fame were in as great Requeſt, as endleſs Gains and Wealth are among us now; [...]1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, page 49
    Synonyms:
    demand
  4. A message sent over a network to a server.
    • The server returned a 404 error to the HTTP request.
  5. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
    • He gave them their request.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 106:15

See all 7 meanings of request

Noun capitalized: RQ

RQ (plural RQs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of respiratory quotient.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of research question.

Forms of rq

Noun
pluralrqs
pluralRQs
Verb
third-person singular presentrqs
present participlerqing
past participlerqed
pastrqed

Phrases with rq

Questions about rq

What is rq the abbreviation of?
Rq is the abbreviation of real quick.
What part of speech is rq?
Rq is a noun.
What is the plural of rq?
The plural of rq is rqs.

Words near rq in the dictionary

  1. rptr. nn.
  2. rpts
  3. RPUSA
  4. RPV
  5. RPVs
  6. rq
  7. RQM
  8. RQMS
  9. rqn.
  10. rqns.
  11. RQOF

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rq (page history and authors); RQ (page history and authors); real quick (page history and authors); request (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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