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qt.
1abbreviation for
- quantity.
- plural qt qts quart.
q.t.
2abbreviation for
qt
1abbreviation for
- quart
q.t.
2abbreviation for
- quiet
- on the q.t.secretly
qt.
- Abbreviation of quart
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of qt.1
Idioms and Phrases
- on the q.t., stealthily; secretly:
to meet someone on the q.t.
More idioms and phrases containing qt.
see on the Q.T.Example Sentences
He wanted to keep it on the QT back then, suggesting that "we could just shoot some Patriot missiles and take out the labs, quietly," and "no one would know it was us."
The Hollywood sketch and improv mecca pits “Gays vs. Straights,†in a “gameshow death match†June 1, the venue’s first all trans/gender-nonconforming/nonbinary improv team delivers “QT’s Present…Joy!â€
The beverage first sparked controversy in October after a wrongful death lawsuit was filed against Panera by the family of Sarah Katz, a 21-year-old University of Pennsylvania student with Long QT Type 1 Syndrome, a heart condition.
“Homicide suspect, he would get you. Stole a sandwich from QT, he would get you,†Ferreria said, flanked on one side by a picture of Eyer in his police uniform and on the other by Eyer with his wife and nearly 3-year-old son Andrew.
T&T Salvage, a Texas-based company, and QT Environmental, of Minnesota, will work with local officials to also clean up the spill that has contaminated waters and beaches in the eastern Caribbean nation, according to its Ministry of Energy.
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What else does QT mean?
Where does QT come from?
As an abbreviation of quiet, QT goes back to at least the 19th century. First recorded in the 1840s, the phrase on the quiet was an expression meaning “in strict confidence, in secret,†with shortened on the QT appearing in the late 1800s. Over 100 years later, on the QT was used, for example, as part of a tagline to the 1997 neo-noir film L.A. Confidential: “Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush …â€
QT was used as a homophone for cutie (attractive, charming person or pet) in the early 1980s animal superhero comic book character Cutey Bunny, created by Joshua Quagmire. This comic was pretty niche, but a 1995 Usenet posting from a fan club of the book is an early example of QT online.
Beyond the comic, QT spread in early 1990s internet culture. It was, and is, used for cutie in various forms of digital communication.
How is QT used in real life?
On the QT is sometimes used as a more old-fashioned, noir-sounding version of on the down-low/DL.
Dear George RR Martin,
Everyone is waiting for the Woodward book, so if you’re at all anxious about releasing Winds of Winter, you could just do it now on the qt.Your friend and fan,
Eric the Read— Eric J Knudsen (@ejknudsen)
Online, QT for cutie is popular as an affectionate and playful abbreviation for the various loved ones in our lives.
I 💚 Curt 2 because he is a QT and my BFF
— Ray (@rayganshae)
QT 3.14 is a playful way of punning on cutie pie, 3.14 the rounded fraction for the value π (pi).
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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