short order

Speech parts

1. short order - Noun

2. short order - Adjective

Meaning

an order for food that can be prepared quickly

of or relating to food that can be prepared quickly

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Examples

Time travel destabilizes history. History is a child of contingency; so many events depend on critical misunderstandings or transient encounters that even the apocryphal butterfly's wing is apt to stir up a storm in short order. Charles Stross

If greater-than-human artificial general intelligence is invented without due caution, it is all but certain that the human species will be extinct in very short order. Michael Vassar

I was a short order cook in a pool hall in college. So I am the fastest cook in the world. Sharon Stone

a short-order cook Source: Internet

After finishing all 60 episodes in short order, I still find myself returning to the series often, its jeweled colors and insistence on platonic friendship as a balm to everything, a comforting escape from the news. Source: Internet

A major point of concern for the Massachusetts Republican, however, was transportation of the goods -- a problem solved in short order with a phone call to longtime friend and Patriots organization president Jonathan Kraft. Source: Internet

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