short order

1. 1.

   an order for food that can be prepared quickly

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Questions about short order

What does short order mean?

short order means "an order for food that can be prepared quickly".

Is short order a common word?

short order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.