PDQ
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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
PDQ - provider data quality, the quality of information (data) about a provider or healthcare organization stored by a health plan or health system