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quickie meal

quickie meal

3.6
A quick, simple meal you make and eat when short on time
  • noun
  • /ˈkwɪki mɪl/
  • Informal
translation icon : comida rápida
  • After work, she put together a quickie meal before heading out again.

Examples

  • We had a quickie meal at a small café before the show.

  • Some college students rely on a quickie meal when they're short on time.

  • I made a quickie meal for lunch.

  • Don't forget to prepare a quickie meal for dinner!

  • After a long day, I just wanted to have a quickie meal instead of cooking a full dinner.

  • For lunch, I opted for a quickie meal that I could prepare in less than ten minutes.

  • Making a quickie meal is perfect for when you don't have much time to spend in the kitchen.

Synonyms

fast food
vsquickie meal
111 1.0

Cheap food that is already cooked and sold to eat quickly, like hamburgers or fried chicken

is food made quickly anywhere with minimal effort and not only by restaurants
bite to eat
vsquickie meal
  • Informal
37 1.8

A small quick meal or snack

is a quickly prepared larger serving rather than just a small snack
quickie
vsquickie meal
  • Informal
26 7.3

A short job done quickly without much care

is used only for preparing and eating food quickly rather than any task

Antonyms

gourmet meal
5 4.9

A meal made with very good ingredients and careful cooking

heavy meal
1 1.9

A large amount of food that makes you feel very full

How Quick

ready-to-eat
8 2.8
quickie meal
  • Informal
3.6
snack
471 1.0
gourmet meal
5 4.9

Surface Forms

quickie meal singular
quickie meals plural

Morphology

quickie + meal

The meaning 'a meal prepared and eaten quickly' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'quickie' (something done quickly) with 'meal' (an eating occasion). This adjective-noun composition is transparent and cross-linguistically common; although 'quickie' is informal, a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

Quickie meal uses quickie meaning something done very fast and meal meaning food you eat. Imagine heating a sandwich in the microwave and eating it quickly; that's why it means 'a meal that is prepared and eaten quickly'.