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How to use quid in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Quid means the inherent nature of something. Example: “Seven quid for a toastie? Are you taking the mick?!”

Examples of quid by meaning

nounPaired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something...

  • The claim officials here make—that for a quid to have a quo there must be some equivalency between the two—draws theoretical sustenance from the objective, exclusionary approach that critics of classical contract law apply to disproportionate exchanges.2000, Andrew Stark, Conflict of Interest in American Public Life, →ISBN, pages 163–164
  • Valeo, involves a quid pro quo: an officeholder doing something in office in return for money or some other favor provided by another individual or entity (for our purposes, a corporation).2009, George G. Brenkert, Tom L. Beaucham, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, Oxford University Press, page 504
  • It is hard to pull off a quid pro quo if the holder of the quo doesn’t know about the quid.2020, John Yoo, Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, New York, N.Y.: All Points Books, St. Martin’s Publishing...

nounPound (currency). (usually used with a whole number of pounds).

  • Seven quid for a toastie? Are you taking the mick?!

nounA sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.

  • Have either of you ever made a couple of quids at once in your puff before—pinching goods from the back of delivery vans and smooching lead off empty houses?1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
  • Forty quid a fuckin ticket.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 114
  • The ride costs exactly fifteen quid, but that doesn't include the tip, and bitter is two pounds a pint.1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, pages 71–72

verbTo chew tobacco.

  • Ah! the pig-tailed, quidding pirates and the pretty pranks we played1902, John Masefield, A Ballad of John Silver

More sentences with quid

  • To deny that the arrangement was a quid pro quo would be laughably disingenuous.From the entry quid pro quo
  • A thousand quid for that motor? Do me a lemon! I could get it for half that.From the entry lemon
  • Buy three items for the price of two and you'll be quids in!From the entry quids in
  • Well, for twenty quid we're having it — it's worth that all day long.From the entry all day
  • Fifty quid for that piece of junk? You're having a laugh!From the entry have a laugh
  • Fifty quid for that piece of junk? He's having me on he is!From the entry have on
  • It was quite obviously a quid pro quo arrangement.From the entry quid pro quo
  • The amount due is just three quid.From the entry due
  • Twenty quid for a shave? That's a bit steep.From the entry steep
  • That cowson still owes me five quid.From the entry cowson
  • Twenty quid? Are you winding me up?From the entry wind up
  • Spare two quid, guv? I 'aven't eaten since yesterday.From the entry guv
  • Twenty quid, you say? Yes, we'll have it, thank you.From the entry have it
  • Tell you what, you can have it for fifty quid if you'll promise to give it a good home.From the entry tell you what
  • Bro, that figurine costs, like, a morbillion quid off Amazon.From the entry morbillion
  • Buying a house in central London will set you back close to a million quid, these days – it's just silly money.From the entry silly money
  • Paying back a friend with a forgotten £14 sitting on my Monzo feels like I'm quids in.2023 August 14, Morgan Fargo, “What is girl math? Meet the TikTok trend justifying big purchases and 'little treat' spending”, in…. From the entry girl math
  • It is not about a quid pro quo; it rests on shared values and security interests.2022 October 17, Tom Tapp, “ADL President Calls Trump’s “Jewsplaining” Claim About Israel An “An Unveiled Threat” On CNN”, in Deadline. From the entry Greenblatt
  • 'Well, hand relief is fifteen quid, a blow job's twenty, and the full bifta is forty-five quid.'2009, Martina Cole, The Ladykiller, →ISBN. From the entry bifta
  • You oughter be able to get two or three quid a day when things is busy.1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Sydney, N.S.W.: A&R Classics, published 2013, →ISBN, page 304. From the entry hoot
  • Thanks to Jeeves I was not going to be called on to cough up several thousand quid.1923 May 17, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC, page 40. From the entry cough
  • Will you come if I can get the aunt to fork out twenty quid?1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry fork out
  • And this morning, bright and early, the beak parted him from ten quid.1919 May 17, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, “A Damsel in Distress”, in George Horace Lorimer, editor, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191…. From the entry bright and early
  • Those 65 quid might be worth it.2026 April, Mollie Taylor, “Worlds Collide”, in PC Gamer, number 420, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 79. From the entry netcode
  • When I see stuff in the paper like, ‘Oh, he’s worth £20m quid’, I ain’t worth that much.2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian. From the entry loaded
  • It will cost two hundred and fifty quid.2012, Molly Hopkins, It Happened at Boot Camp: Exclusive Novella, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry quell
  • We had five quid between us to get home and grab a Maccies or Wimpy at Lime Street on the way.2012, Steven Gerrard, Steven Gerrard: My Story, Random House, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry Maccies
  • You take this hundred quid in used Ayrton Sennas and I'll be off in the old Camilla Parker-Bowles.2004, Mervyn Stutter, Getting Nowhere Fast. From the entry Ayrton Senna
  • Indeed, asymmetry precludes the possibility of pointing to any particular quo that is meant to recompense the quid.2000, Andrew Stark, Conflict of Interest in American Public Life, →ISBN, pages 163–164. From the entry quo
  • If it ‘adn’t a-been for your soft soap I’d a-got my forty quid out o’ the old devil months ago.1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon. From the entry soft-soap
  • If you'll pay me back four quid at the end of term, you shall have the two pounds.1903, P. G. Wodehouse, A Prefect's Uncle, A & C Black. From the entry old chap
  • Quid pro quo benefits are by nature differentially available to individuals, depending upon the quo—upon what promise has been made or performance provided.1993, Richard Edwards, Rights at Work: Employment Relations in the Post-Union Era, Brookings Institution, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry quo

Meaning of quid

  1. noun The inherent nature of something.
  2. noun A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.).
  3. noun Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.

Full definition of quid

Questions about quid in a sentence

How do you use quid in a sentence?
Quid is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Seven quid for a toastie? Are you taking the mick?!”
What is a short sentence with quid?
“Forty quid a fuckin ticket.”
What does quid mean?
Quid means the inherent nature of something.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quid (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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