Meanings
plural quickies
- colloquialSomething made or done swiftly.
- broadlycolloquialA brief sexual encounter.
We had a quickie; I didn’t come & was only telling of the future where there was better bed fucks & us living contentedly as we walked slowly across town again to her home.
1971, Neal Cassady, The First Third, City Lights, page 1361 more example
Why talk about courtly love [l'amour courtois]^([sic]) today, in an age of permissiveness when the sexual encounter is often nothing more than a ‘quickie’ in some dark corner of an office?
2005 [1994], Slavoj Žižek, The Metastases of Enjoyment: Six Essays on Women and Causality, Verso, →ISBN, page 89
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷeyh₃-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷih₃wós
- Proto-Germanic*kwikwaz
- Proto-West Germanic*kwiku
- Old Englishcwic
- Middle Englishquyk
- Englishquick
- Englishquickie
Translations
Czech rychlovka, rychlovka
- rychlovkasomething made or done swiftly
- rychlovkabrief sexual encounter
Dutch vluggertje
- vluggertjebrief sexual encounter
Finnish pika-, pikainen
- pika-something made or done swiftly
- pikainensomething made or done swiftly
- pikapanobrief sexual encounter
- pikaisetbrief sexual encounter
French petite vite
- petite vitebrief sexual encounter
German Quickie, schnelle Nummer
- Quickiesomething made or done swiftly
- schnelle Nummerbrief sexual encounter
- Quickiebrief sexual encounter
Greek ξεπέτα
- ξεπέτα (xepéta)brief sexual encounter
Icelandic skyndikynni
- skyndikynnibrief sexual encounter
Italian cosa veloce, sveltina
- cosa velocesomething made or done swiftly
- sveltinabrief sexual encounter
Norwegian Bokmål kjappis
- kjappisbrief sexual encounter
Polish numerek
- numerekbrief sexual encounter
Portuguese rapidinha
- rapidinhabrief sexual encounter
Russian перепихон
- перепихон (perepixon)brief sexual encounter
Spanish kiki, quiqui
- kikibrief sexual encounter
- quiquibrief sexual encounter
- rapidínbrief sexual encounter
Swedish snabbis, snabbis
- snabbissomething made or done swiftly
- snabbisbrief sexual encounter
Turkish cup cup
- cup cupbrief sexual encounter
Ukrainian нашвидкору́ч зро́блена халту́ра, перепиха́ння
- нашвидкору́ч зро́блена халту́ра (našvydkorúč zróblena xaltúra)something made or done swiftly
- перепиха́ння (perepyxánnja)brief sexual encounter
- швидки́й секс (švydkýj seks)brief sexual encounter
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with quickie
Cite this entry
quickie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quickie
“quickie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quickie. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quickie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quickie.
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