Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb At once; immediately.
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- initialism
pretty damned quick (or, euphemistically, prettydarn quick); very quickly, as quickly as possible.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We took a vote and decided that getting to California PDQ was our #1 priority.
Dude, I am totally (road) tripping Zenmomma 2008
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We took a vote and decided that getting to California PDQ was our #1 priority.
Archive 2008-10-01 Zenmomma 2008
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Keith Ross, chief executive of a small trading platform called PDQ, suggests that his company is offering a fix for some of the equity market's structural problems.
Forbes.com: News Emily Lambert 2012
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From one of those patents he spun off a small market platform called PDQ
Forbes.com: News Emily Lambert 2012
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Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, as well as the new version of PDQ that he was using for the game, dubbed PDQ# (PDQ Sharp).
gamegrene.com 2009
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Every part on a new model has a team comprising a purchasing engineer, a design engineer and a quality engineer -- called PDQ -- in charge of taking that part from concept through production.
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 Without Smith, the project might find itself DOA, PDQ. via THR
Men in Black back for another movie | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Singer/songwriter/musician and executive director, Karla Schickele daughter of Peter Schickele, AKA PDQ Bach, volunteered at a rock and roll camp for girls in 2000 in Portland, Oregon, whose purpose was to empower girls by getting them into bands.
Margie Goldsmith: I'm in a Band in NYC... and You Can Be, Too Margie Goldsmith 2011
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Singer/songwriter/musician and executive director, Karla Schickele daughter of Peter Schickele, AKA PDQ Bach, volunteered at a rock and roll camp for girls in 2000 in Portland, Oregon, whose purpose was to empower girls by getting them into bands.
Margie Goldsmith: I'm in a Band in NYC... and You Can Be, Too Margie Goldsmith 2011
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I ran a PDQ game where one of the characters had Phasing, Teleportation and Invisibility powers.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Is teleportation overpowered? 2009
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