{
  "PDQ":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": as quickly as possible : immediately":[
        "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 .",
        "\u2014 Tom Utley",
        "He needed to get back to the hospital pdq , he said.",
        "\u2014 Bob Levey"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "We need to hire someone PDQ .",
      "the boss wants the report, and he wants it PDQ"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1875, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "abbreviation of pretty damned quick":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccp\u0113-(\u02cc)d\u0113-\u02c8ky\u00fc"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bang",
      "directly",
      "forthwith",
      "headlong",
      "immediately",
      "incontinently",
      "instantaneously",
      "instanter",
      "instantly",
      "now",
      "plumb",
      "presently",
      "promptly",
      "pronto",
      "right",
      "right away",
      "right now",
      "right off",
      "straight off",
      "straightaway",
      "straightway"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110056",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  }
}