单词 | pdq |
释义 | > as lemmasPDQ PDQ n. (also p.d.q.) colloquial pretty damn quick, pretty damned quick. ΚΠ 1893 Railroad Trainmen's Jrnl. Oct. 854 With hair erect and eyes staring wide, He grabbed a deacon sitting beside, And gave his head a wrench or two, Did the brakemen on the P. D. Q. ‘Twist on them brakes.’ he yelled in fear. a1901 B. E. Woolf Mighty Dollar in B. H. Clark Favorite Amer. Plays 19th Cent. (1943) 489 That's right, you'd better step P.D.Q., pretty damn quick. 1926 S. Lewis Mantrap xii. 155 The guys..think they can make you P.D.Q., even if they're old and fat. 1995 B. Maitland Marx Sisters 250 Well, we'd better find out PDQ exactly what the Kowalskis' movements were that afternoon. < as lemmas |
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