Usually means: Efficient but potentially flawed solution.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word quick and dirty:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. quick and dirty: Merriam-Webster
  2. quick-and-dirty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quick-and-dirty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. quick-and-dirty, quick and dirty: Wiktionary
  5. quick-and-dirty: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. quick-and-dirty, quick and dirty: Dictionary.com
  7. quick-and-dirty: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. quick-and-dirty: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. quick-and-dirty: Netlingo
  3. quick and dirty: CCI Computer
  4. Quick and dirty, quick-and-dirty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. quick-and-dirty, quick and dirty: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quick and dirty: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. quick and dirty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. quick and dirty: ESL Slang page
  3. quick-and-dirty: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Quick and dirty)

adjective:  Alternative form of quick-and-dirty [(idiomatic) Done or constructed in a hasty, approximate, temporarily adequate manner, but not exact, fully formed, or reliable for a long period of time.]

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