Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Informal At once; immediately.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- p(retty) d(amned) q(uick). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We took a vote and decided that getting to California PDQ was our #1 priority.”
“From one of those patents he spun off a small market platform called PDQ”
“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.”
“Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, as well as the new version of PDQ that he was using for the game, dubbed PDQ# (PDQ Sharp).”
“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.”
“I ran a PDQ game where one of the characters had Phasing, Teleportation and Invisibility powers.”
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“Â Without Smith, the project might find itself DOA, PDQ. via THR”
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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.”
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“Los Angeles-based Wedbush Securities invested in PDQ in 2007 and owns less than 5% of the company.”
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“With PDQ's platform, buyers and sellers plug in their trading algorithms—programs that process data from markets and elsewhere to identify and execute trades—in order to seek matches for their orders.”
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