quick-and-dirty

Meanings

Adjective

• Done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time.

Noun

• An inexpensive, inelegant eatery; a greasy spoon.
• A quick, temporary fix, estimate, or the like.

Related

Similar words

• slipshod

Origin

• The Oxford English Dictionary shows the first usage of this phrase in 1896 in the Boston Globe to describe a place to eat. The first use meaning "slipshod" was from 1939 in the gun-slinging, American Western fiction paperback, "Bounty Guns" by Luke Short.