"quickie" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a short or hurried job or a brief sexual encounter. An example sentence would be: "We can't stay very long, so this dinner is just going to be a quickie."
Mark Wood is the uncapped quickie in question and, after a month of carrying the drinks in the Caribbean, the 25-year-old is hoping raw skills trump a lack of familiarity with the home of cricket and that he is granted a Test debut by the captain, Alastair Cook, and the caretaker coach, Paul Farbrace.
David Cameron and defence spokesman Liam Fox promise a quickie strategic defence review (SDR) in six months, the first since George Robertson's admired SDR in 1998, the one chancellor Brown shortchanged.
Today's Times (paywall) has dug up some evidence that Boris Johnson, London mayor and arch-leaderist – witness his quickie biography of wartime leader Boris Churchill – is the answer to David Cameron's problems.
"But it is true: that is a good time for a quickie".
A quickie 5-game series against a single international side is not necessarily what you want but it's what you're given.
That just strengthens the case for a quickie renewal of Britain's wedding vows with Europe in a referendum held in 2016.
The government is understood to be considering changes to the refugee determination system to quickly reject more of the alleged "economic migrants", but Triggs said "a quickie process based on blanket assumption is directly contrary to Australia's obligation under international law, which provides that each individual must be assessed according to their own circumstances".
"Embers", Christopher Hampton's recent quickie play (100 minutes), starring Jeremy Irons, has an interval after just 35 minutes.
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