Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also quickee) a spontaneous and brief act of sexual intercourse (occas. masturbation), esp. with a prostitute; thus the person with whom one has that intercourse.

c.1920		in P. Smith Letter from My Father (1978) 133: I [...] fucked her there and then on the sofa [...] The upshot of that quicky was a fast friendship that lasted for years.
1934		‘J.M. Hall’ Anecdota Americana II 113: Q stands for Quickee, / A rapid-fire shot.
1953		S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 291: You know what kind of a joint this is, don’t you? For quickies.
1967		‘Philip Barrows’ Whores, Queers & Others I [ebook] She wanted a quickie for two bucks and had a room we could go to.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 166: quickie [...] 2. person one has sex with once; a transparent romance.
1979		E. Torres After Hours 214: I thought of coppin’ a quickie behind the palm trees.
1982		P. Bailey An Eng. Madam 72: He [...] paid her £10 for a quickie.
1986		R.G. Barrett Real Thing 76: ‘You feel like a root?’ [...] ‘It’ll have to be a quickie’.
1998		(con. 1960s) G. Washington Blood Brothers 185: Sergeant Socco always popped by for a quickie with Sweet Mama in the storeroom.
2006		D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 22: It was £3 for a short time, a quickie.
2006		C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 235: Let me show you what my people call a ‘quickie’.
2007		L. Redhead Cherry Pie [ebook] Praying that Trip’s quickie had turned into a longie.
2010		C. Hiaasen Star Island (2011) 73: The astronomical odds of him receiving a high-altitude quickie from a frisky blonde.
2015		J. Stahl OG Dad 145: [of masturbation] Poor little thing can’t even crawl, so she can’t sneak off for a quickie where no one can see her.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 185: She lived for their very infrequent quickies.

2. attrib. use of sense 1.

1960		A. Burgess Doctor Is Sick (1972) 166: ‘It is all night you want, isn’t it?,’ said Coral. ‘It isn’t just one of those quickie larks before the last train?’.
1977		E. Torres Q&A 169: ‘Here it is, sweetie. One hundred dollars for a quickie front seat blow job’ .
2001		Observer Mag. 9 Sept. 43: Around 3pm have a ‘quickie’ sex break.

3. a quick drink.

1940		Dly News (Perth) 13 Feb. 5/3: ‘S’pose you’ll be goin’ straight home now at knock off time, Charlie [...] No more sixpence in for a quicky down at the corner’.
1952		A.W. Upfield New Shoe 124: Fred goes in for a ‘quickie,’ which he repeats until he gets to his sleeping stage.
1959		G. Hamilton Summer Glare 250: A party of people who had left [...] to drive out to Nemingha for a ‘quicky’.
1969		A. Buzo Rooted III i: I nipped into the pub for a quickie before dinner.
1985		O. Hawkins Chili 17: On the way to work, a few quickies before the shift changed.

4. an instant divorce without the usually obligatory legal proceedings.

1940		Alabama Lawyer 53: [heading] ‘Quickie’ Divorce Tax Problems, Gersten et al v . Commissioner.
1961		W.R. Burnett Conant 51: Miss Engel was married previously, and got a quickie divorce in Mexico to marry Bill Worden.
2000		P. Earley Super Casino 68: In a state that prides itself on quickie divorces, Sarno was able to tangle up the process for nearly three years.
2021		J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 14: I’m estranged from [husband] number two. I’d head to Reno for a quickie, but it might not work.

5. any speedy, spontaneous action.

1955		Helfand Report 115: [T]he illegal quickie strike [...] is no less deadly a weapon than the bludgeons used in industrial disputes in older days.
2002		Earley & Shur WITSEC 83: Shur assumed he’d hustle the couple in front of a rabbi for a quickie ceremony, but the Zelmanowitzes demanded [...] the works.
2012		G. Flynn Gone Girl 334: I followed the Sharon Schieber interview with two quickies—one cable and one network.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 230: Miller Leavy got us quickie phone-bill supoenas.

6. a quick, ‘dirty’ story, retailed at the end of a party or drinking session.

1984

Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 949/2: since late 1940s.

7. (US gay) fellatio.

1972

B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 34: act of sucking the penis until ejaculation [...] quickie (hustler sl: when a buyer does the sucking).

8. beer.

1999

Indep. Traveller 27 Nov. 12: Five refer to beer: coldie, quickie, slab, stubbie and tinnie.

9. (N.Z.) an act of deception.

2003

McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 164: pull/put over a quickie/swiftie Deceive with some clever or dishonest move. ANZ.