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What (who) is quid - definition
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QUID; Quid (disambiguation)
quid
quid1
¦ noun (plural same) Brit. informal one pound sterling.
Phrases
not the full quid Austral./NZ informal not intelligent.
quids in Brit. informal profiting or likely to profit from something.
Origin
C17 (denoting a sovereign): of obscure origin.
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quid2
¦ noun a lump of chewing tobacco.
Origin
C18: var. of cud.
Quid
·add. ·noun An English coin, a sovereign.
II. Quid ·noun A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.
III. Quid ·vt To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed;
- said of horses.
quid
(quid)
A quid is a pound in money. (BRIT INFORMAL)
It cost him five hundred quid.
N-COUNT
Wikipedia
Quid
Quid may refer to:
- Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination, a proposed "space currency" created as a viral marketing campaign launched by Travelex.
- Quid, slang for the pound sterling, and the euro in Ireland.
- The Quid, a Canadian garage rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- Quid (encyclopedia), a French encyclopedia, established in 1963 by Dominique Frémy.
- Quid Inc., a private software and services company, specializing in text-based data analysis.
- Tertium quids (sometimes quids), various factions of the Democratic-Republican Party in the United States during the period 1804–1812.
Examples of use of quid
1. Not a quid pro quo "This is not a matter of quid pro quo," Rowe said.
2. Lesson One÷ a million quid goes nowhere these days.
3. Thirty quid for the most shamefully satisfying. diary@guardian.co.uk
4. Cripes, Fred, we‘ve got 750,000 quid left just lying there.
5. On Monday, Clinton, too, denied any quid pro quo.