quick-and-dirty
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The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, has become a quick-and-dirty way to quantify caution.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
If you need the quick-and-dirty on Big Tech's preeminent New Right libertarian — and without a doubt the leading gay conservative of our time — look no further.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023
In a sense, the use of commonplace properties when details are missing is a type of heuristic — it is a quick-and-dirty strategy that will often work well but sometimes fail.
From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2021
The quick-and-dirty headline is Wall Street reacting to the North Korean nuclear test.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2016
A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
