Phrase Hound found 21 phrases and 36 compound words that contain quit. The most common are listed below. Open quit in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 21
- Quit Smoking
- Big QuitSynonym of Great Resignation: An economic trend from 2021 to 2023 in which many employees voluntarily resigned from their jobs en masse and job-hopping was common.
- force quit(intransitive) To abort an unresponsive computer program, bypassing the usual closure process.
- quit-rentAlternative spelling of quitrent: A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit (absolved) from other service.
- quiet quitTo cease overachieving at one's workplace to focus on one's personal life; to do only what is reasonably or contractually required.
- hit it and quit itTo have a sexual encounter for physical gratification, and part company with the other partner immediately thereafter; to have a quickie one-night stand.
- quit litA genre of confessional writings by people who have left academia.
- rage quitAlternative form of ragequit: The act of quitting an online video game in anger.
- quit-rentsplural of quit-rent: A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit (absolved) from other service.
- quit claim deedAlternative form of quitclaim deed: A document by which an individual, the grantor, disclaims any interest the grantor might have in a piece of real property, and passes that claim to another individual, the grantee.
- quit buddyA friend who supports a person who is recovering from addiction and tries to prevent them relapsing.
- quit while one is aheadTo stop taking risks before one starts losing.
- quit buddiesplural of quit buddy: A friend who supports a person who is recovering from addiction and tries to prevent them relapsing.
- don't quit your day jobSynonym of don't give up your day job: Somewhat sarcastic but usually good-natured advice used to criticise a person's degree of talent (especially in music or other performing arts), implying that they are unlikely to be successful.
- quit-renterAlternative spelling of quitrenter: One who possesses land in return for the payment of a quitrent.
- quit-rentersplural of quit-renter: One who possesses land in return for the payment of a quitrent.
- quit claim deedsplural of quit claim deed: A document by which an individual, the grantor, disclaims any interest the grantor might have in a piece of real property, and passes that claim to another individual, the grantee.
- quit the oxygen habitTo die.
- quit when one is aheadAlternative form of quit while one is ahead: To stop taking risks before one starts losing.
- quit while one was aheadsimple past and past participle of quit while one is ahead
- quit scoresTo settle or balance accounts or differences; to make compensation.
Compound words 36
- acquitTo declare or find innocent or not guilty.
- bananaquitA nectar-feeding bird, Coereba flaveola, thought to be related to the Darwin's finches and the grassquits.
- quitlineA helpline offering advanced treatment for addiction and behavior change.
- ragequitThe act of quitting an online video game in anger.
- unquitTo undo the effects of quitting; to start again.
- grassquitAny of several small tropical birds now placed in the tanager family Thraupidae (but previously in Emberizidae), common in the West Indies and in countries of Central and South America around the Caribbean Sea.
- quitrentA rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit (absolved) from other service.
- coquitTo quit being coquette; to give up on being feminine and frilly.
- orangequitA monotypic species of tanager (Euneornis campestris) endemic to Jamaica.
- quitsiesPermission to leave a game (of marbles, etc.) without forfeit or penalty.