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quickie

noun as in hasty action

noun as in quick drink

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Craig and Carter Blanchard collaborated on the screenplay adaptation, and the film relies on the kind of quickie reveals and twists that audiences would expect from this kind of thing.

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

Their curiosity turned quickie, unauthorized biographies like “Leonardo DiCaprio: Modern-Day Romeo” into bestsellers and compelled them to fire up their modems and head to GeoCities to make rudimentary websites that functioned like virtual bedroom walls.

“They’d rather have this quickie ceremony,” she said, “and spend the money on a world cruise for a honeymoon.”

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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