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🥛 A liquid measure 😊 An attractive person
qt

qt

9.9
An attractive or charming person who seems sweet
  • noun
  • /kjuːti/
  • Slang
translation icon : cariño
  • Dewey is clear in QT that his main theses are true of "all thinking" (LW 5:251).

Examples

  • This one's on the QT.

    Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

  • On the QT:

    Blog text (8)

  • Maybe we should keep your profession on the QT.

    My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008)

  • - What up, QT?

    American Honey (2016)

  • Yeah, QT.

    American Honey (2016)

  • There are important consequences or implications of QT for education and our conception of the ideal inquirer that we have not explored here.

    Academic text (2016)

  • - QT!

    American Honey (2016)

  • Magnesium sulfate has been found to be effective for ventricular tachycardia in the acute phase of NSM for QT-interval prolongation.

    Academic text (2016)

  • You look so adorable today, QT!

  • She always calls her best friend QT because she thinks she's the cutest.

Idioms

on the QT
  • Informal
2 9.5

In secret and not in public

Surface Forms

qt singular
qts plural

Etymology

The slang qt comes from saying the letters Q and T together, because they sound like the word cutie meaning 'a cute or attractive person'. So calling someone a qt is a playful, short way to call them a 'cutie'.