PDQ
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This is a three-letter abbreviation which means "pretty damned (or darn) quick(ly)" but may refer more specifically to the following list of products or services available:
- PDQ (Predictive Dynamic Quoting), printing industry estimating software developed by Haybrooke Associates Limited
- P. D. Q. Bach, fictional composer and son of Johann Sebastian Bach, invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele
- PDQ Food Stores, a convenience store chain in the American Midwest
- Physician Data Query, an online database developed by the National Cancer Institute
- PDQ (game show), an American television game show which aired from 1966 to 1969
- PDQ Chocolate, a flavored drink mix, sponsor and namesake of the above mentioned game show
- PDQ Manufacturing, a car wash manufacturer of both touch free (brushless) and friction (brush) equipment
- PDQ (Pretty Damn Quick), computer performance analysis software developed by Neil J. Gunther
- PDQ terminal, "Process Data Quickly" terminals which process credit card and debit card transactions
- Prose Descriptive Qualities, a role-playing game system
- PDQ (also known as "Wallstreet II"), a code name of specific models of the PowerBook G3 Series by Apple Computer, Inc.
- Qualcomm pdQ, an early Smartphone running PalmOS, precursor to the Kyocera 6035.
- Oil rigs combining production, drilling and quarters, e.g. Thunder Horse PDQ