quicker than scat
very quickly, in a great hurry.
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quickscope
A rapid kill with a sniper rifle after scoping in.
quickshot
A premature ejaculator.
quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
Used to mockingly describe people who seem to use Latin phrases and quotations only to make themselves sound more important or "educated".
quids in
In a position of having gained or saved money through some financial transaction.
quidsworth
pounds' worth, in terms of money
quiet as a snowflake
Synonym of silent.
quiet down
To become quieter.
quieten down
To become quieter.
quiff
A trick or ploy; a stratagem.
quilt
To beat or thrash.
quincest
The real-person fiction ship of identical twin indie pop duo Tegan and Sara.
quincy
A toilet: a fixture for urination and defecation, particularly (humorous) as a personification of the device.
quintillion
Any very large number, exceeding normal description.
quirked up
Synonym of quirky.
quirly
A cigarette, especially one which is hand-rolled.
quisby
A wretch; an idle person.
quizzy
The Inquisitor player character from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.
quockerwodger
A person whose actions are controlled by someone else; a puppet.
quod
Confinement in a prison.
quoin up
To set quoins in place prior to fastening them (locking up).
quoniam
A kind of drinking-cup.
quota quickie
A typically low-cost, low-quality film commissioned to satisfy the quota requirements of the Cinematograph Films Act 1927.
QV
A session with a client lasting approximately fifteen minutes.
q in a corner
An old children's game, per- haps the same as our "Puss in the corner"; also something not seen at first, but sub- sequently brought to notice. The thong to which seals are attached in legal documents is in French called the queue] thus we have lettres scettees sur simple queue or sur double queue, according to whether they bear one or two seals.
quack
Any doctor.
quack
An ungraduated ignorant pretender to skill in physic, a vender of nostrums.
quack-salver
A mountebank: a seller of salves.
quag
Abbreviation of quagmire; marshy moorish around.
Quai d'Orsay
The quay in Paris running along the left bank of the Seine where are situated the departments of Foreign Affairs and other government offices. The name is applied to the French Foreign Office and sometimes to the French Government as a whole.
quail-pipe
A woman's tongue; also a device to take birds of that name by imitating their call. Quail pipe boots; boots resembling a quail pipe, from the number of plaits; they were much worn in the reign of Charles II.
quake in one's boots
To be extremely frightened or intimidated
quaker
A lump of excrement.
quaker gun
A fake or decoy weapon
quaker guns
Dummy guns made of wood, for drill purposes or camouflage; an allusion to the Quaker reprobation of the use of force.
quakers
A religious sect so called from their agitations in preaching.
quality
Gentry, the upper classes.
quality of life
General well-being, including physical, emotional, and social aspects
quality over quantity
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
quandary
To be in a quandary: to be puzzled. Also one so over-gorged, as to be doubtful which he should do first, sh--e or spew. Some derive the term quandary from the French phrase qu'en dirai je? what shall I say of it? others from an Italian word signifying a conjuror's circle.
quandary
Described in the dictionaries as a "low word," may fittingly be given here. It illustrates, like "hocus-pocus," and other compound colloquialisms, the singular origin of slang expressions. QUANDARY, a dilemma, a doubt, a difficulty, is from the French, QU’EN DIRAI-JE?—Skinner.
quantum tunnel
to overcome a significant obstacle or challenge
quar
Quarantine.
quarrel-picker
A glazier: from the small squares in casements, called CARREUX, vulgarly quarrels.
quart d'heure
Un mauvais quart d'heure (Fr., a bad quarter of an hour), used of a short, disagreeable experience.
quartered
Divided into four parts; to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, is the sentence on traitors and rebels. Persons receiving part of the salary of an office from the holder of it, by virtue of an agreement with the donor, are said to be quartered on him. Soldiers billetted on a publican are likewise said to be quartered on him.
quartereen
A farthing.
quartereen
A farthing.—Gibraltar term. Italian, QUATTRINO.
quasi historical
Apparently historical; more or less so, or pretending to be so and almost succeeding.
quasi tenant
The tenant of a house sublet. Quasimodo Sunday (kwa zi mo doO. The first Sunday after Easter; so called because the "Introit" of the day begins with these words: Quasi modo geniti infantes (1 Pet. ii, 2).
quean
A slut, or worthless woman, a strumpet.
quean
A strumpet. In Scotland, a lower-class woman. Saxon, CWEAN, a barren old cow.
Queen Ajine's Bounty
A fund created out of the firstfruits and tenths which were part of the papal exactions before the Reformation. The firstfruits are the whole first year's profits of a clerical living, and the tenths are the tenth part annually of the profits of a living. Henry VIII annexed both these to the Crown, but Queen Anne formed them into a perpetual fund for the augmentation of poor livings and the build- ing of parsonages.
Queen Anne
In the first part of her reign he wrote a laudatory poem to the queen, but he says that the latter part deluded his hopes and proved him a false prophet.
Queen Anne is dead
A slighting retort made to the teller of stale news.
Queen Anne style
The style in buildings, furniture, silver-ware, etc., characteristic of her period. Domestic architecture, for instance, was noted for many angles, gables, and ir- regularity of windows.
Queen Anne went to St
Paul's in 1708 to offer thanksgiving for the victory of Oudenarde, disaffected conspirators removed certain screw-bolts from the beams of the cathedral, that the roof might fall on the queen and her suite and kill them.
Queen Anne's dead
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Queen Anne's fan
Your thumb to your nose and your fingers spread ; cocking a snook.
queen bee
A dominant female in a group or situation