quick-and-dirty

adjective

1. Informal. slipshod.

noun

1. Slang. greasy spoon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of quick-and-dirty¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

The “quick-and-dirty” method of meteorite identification persists because “not everybody cares about magnetic fields like Ben Weiss does,” says Carl Agee, the meteoriticist at the University of New Mexico who first determined Black Beauty hailed from Mars.

From Science Magazine

If you need the quick-and-dirty on Big Tech's preeminent New Right libertarian — and without a doubt the leading gay conservative of our time — look no further.

From Salon

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From Salon

A few months ago I looked at the “misery index” — the sum of unemployment and inflation, originally suggested by Arthur Okun as a quick-and-dirty summary of the state of the economy.

From Seattle Times

“It really worries me that naive judges would be spending their lunch hour doing quick-and-dirty searches of corpora, and getting data that is going to inform their opinion,” says Mark Davies, the now-retired Brigham Young University linguistics professor who built both the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the Corpus of Historical American English.

From The Verge