PDQ

PDQ is a three-letter abbreviation for "pretty damned (or darn) quick(ly)".

PDQ may also refer to:

• PDQ Food Stores, a convenience store chain in the American Midwest
• PDQ (restaurant), A fast food restaurant chain primarily in the southeastern United States.
• PDQ Chocolate, a flavored drink mix
• PDQ terminal, terminals which process credit and debit card transactions
• Oil rigs combining production, drilling and quarters, e.g. Thunder Horse PDQ

Computing:

• Powerbook G3 PDQ (aka Wallstreet Series II), an Apple laptop model
• Qualcomm pdQ, precursor to the Kyocera 6035, an early Palm OS smart phone
• PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick), Neil J. Gunther's performance analysis software
• Physician Data Query, the US National Cancer Institute's (NCI) comprehensive cancer database

Entertainment:

• PDQ (game show), an American television game show which aired from 1966 to 1969
• Prose Descriptive Qualities, a role-playing game system by Atomic Sock Monkey Press

Military:

• Permanently disqualified, or 4F, unfit for military service

See also

• P. D. Q. Bach, a fictitious composer