short order



short order

1. Quickly; see in short order.
2. An order of food to be prepared and served quickly, as in It's just a diner, serving short orders exclusively. This expression, dating from about 1890, gave rise to the adjective short-order, used not only in short-order cook, a cook specializing in short orders, but in other terms such as short-order divorce, a divorce quickly obtained owing to liberal divorce laws.
See also: order, short

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
HasdrubalHAZ-droo-bəl (English), haz-DROO-bəl (English)Ancient Near Eastern (Latinized), History
Iiris-Finnish
ValÉRieva-le-REE (French)French, Czech
Teodorote-o-DO-ro (Italian), te-o-DHO-ro (Spanish)Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
BelgİN-Turkish
Xandinho-Portuguese