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54 lines
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{
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"PDQ":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": as quickly as possible : immediately":[
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"Like a great many of my generation, I'm sorry that I never asked my grandfather about his experiences of fighting in World War I\u2014though I suspect that like so many of his generation, he would have changed the subject PDQ .",
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"\u2014 Tom Utley",
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"He needed to get back to the hospital pdq , he said.",
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"\u2014 Bob Levey"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"We need to hire someone PDQ .",
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"the boss wants the report, and he wants it PDQ"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"circa 1875, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"abbreviation of pretty damned quick":""
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02ccp\u0113-(\u02cc)d\u0113-\u02c8ky\u00fc"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"bang",
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"directly",
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"forthwith",
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"headlong",
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"immediately",
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"incontinently",
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"instantaneously",
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"instanter",
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"instantly",
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"now",
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"plumb",
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"presently",
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"promptly",
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"pronto",
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"right",
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"right away",
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"right now",
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"right off",
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"straight off",
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"straightaway",
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"straightway"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110056",
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"type":[
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"adverb"
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]
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}
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}
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