q.t.
noun (in phrase on the q.t.) informal
Secretly; secret: Brenda nipped round on the q.t. please, I beg you, regard this for the present as on the q.t....
- We used to keep the inhalers in our coat pockets, on the q.t.<em/>
- The guns are on the q.t. now, thank God for that, and we hope and pray that they do not start again.
- ‘This was on the q.t. and simply part of the graft that goes with the job,’ he wrote to his mother.
Origin
Late 19th century: abbreviation of quiet.
- mountain zebra
- mountant
- Mountbatten, Louis
- Mount Desert Island
- mountebank
- mountebankery
- mountebanking
- mountebankish
- mounted
- mounted police
- mounted policeman
- mounted policewoman
- mounter
- mount guard
- Mountie
- Mountie hat
- Mountie's hat
- mounting
- mounting block
- mounting board
- mounting bracket
- mountingly
- mounting paper
- mounting point
- mounting ring