quick-and-dirty

See also: quick and dirty

English

Alternative forms

quick and dirty

Etymology

The Oxford English Dictionary shows the first usage of this phrase in 1896 in the Boston Globe to describe a place to eat. The first use meaning "slipshod" was from 1939 in the gun-slinging, American Western fiction paperback, "Bounty Guns" by Luke Short.

Adjective

quick-and-dirty (comparative more quick-and-dirty, superlative most quick-and-dirty)

(idiomatic) Done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time.
I can do a quick-and-dirty market analysis in time for the meeting tomorrow.

Synonyms

slipshod

Translations

hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate

French: quick-and-dirty (fr)
German: ^{(please verify)} schnell und schmutzig
Polish: zgrubny m, zgrubna f

Russian: на скорую руку (ru) (na skoruju ruku)
Turkish: ^{(please verify)} hızlı ve dikkatsizce

Noun

quick-and-dirty (plural quick-and-dirties)

(US, slang) An inexpensive, inelegant eatery; a greasy spoon.
(idiomatic) A quick, temporary fix, estimate, or the like.
The car broke down but we managed to do a quick-and-dirty and were back on the road in fifteen minutes.

References

“quick-and-dirty” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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