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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

PDQ en · ADV

Meanings

(abbreviation, alt-of, colloquial, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of pretty damned/darn quick: very quickly, as quickly as possible.
alt of pretty damned/darn quick
- Well, whatever happened, Joe must be taken off the Noakes case p.d.q. 1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon:

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pdq		alternative	lexicographic

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