Pdq

adv, slang

adv, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Initialism of pretty damned/darn quick: very quickly, as quickly as possible. abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, initialism, not-comparable

    "Well, whatever happened, Joe must be taken off the Noakes case p.d.q."

Synonyms

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apaceat onceawaydecisivelydirectlyexpeditiously

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"Well, whatever happened, Joe must be taken off the Noakes case p.d.q."

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