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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.

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

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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.

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

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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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