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MQ
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(Abbreviation) Multiplier QuotientAbbreviation for masculine quotient, another word for masculine sex appeal. For a while, in the 1980s, the letter Q was tagged to acronyms to refer to the appealability of a person, their power of attracting or of arousing interest. In the movie Protocol (1984) Cliff De Young is looking for: ' Someone who's reasonably good-natured, has a reasonably high TVQ, and absolutely nothing important to do.'
SYNONYMS: masculine quotient; X-appeal.
QUOTES:
(1) Reporter Jake Callahan (Lynne Overman) about sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn (Adolphe Menjou) in Roxie Hart (1942): ' Sex appeal rises from him like a cloud of steam.'
(2) Dorinda Durston (Holly Hunter) speaking about Ted Baker (Brad Johnson) in Always (1989): ' He's too beautiful. He's too much twisted steel and sex appeal. I can't be with a guy who looks like I won him in a raffle.'
(Abbreviation) Message Queueing
(Abbreviation) Millionaire Quality
(Abbreviation) Magic Quadrant
(Abbreviation) Mandata Quotient
(Abbreviation) Married Quarters
(Abbreviation) Medium Quality
(Abbreviation) Message Queue
(Abbreviation) Milly Quezada
(Abbreviation) Morning Quickie
(Abbreviation) Museums Quartier
(Abbreviation) Monica Quincy
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