quickie

We have a brief couple of weeks to make jokes about the candidates in South Carolina’s quickie Republican Senate primary, and we intend to use them.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2026

Lately, she’s been teaching classes on making bagels — not the quickie recipe, but the overnight version.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

And so in September, Marie went down to Tijuana to get a quickie divorce, which was very popular back then.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 20, 2023

Speed up the decades-long process of climate change and you get “The Day After Tomorrow,” the 2004 film that unleashed a risible quickie apocalypse onto the screen.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

Then he went to Reno, Nevada, and got himself a quickie divorce.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

They don’t do quickies or distraction, but they also don’t do lightness and laughter.

From Slate ● Apr. 24, 2020

Having learned his trade making low-budget quickies for Roger Corman, Demme has always celebrated American junk culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2017

A London film in the tradition of so many second features and exploitation quickies – but with, in the spirit of my project, a strong whiff of refracted autobiography.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 16, 2013

His best work helming Warner Brother’s Pre-Code quickies was 25 years behind him, not to mention a guest shot at the “Wizard of Oz.”

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2012

“Last Man Standing,” Mr. Allen’s retro-man new sitcom, likes to do this, but only for easy quickies.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2011