fast/quick buck

noun

: money that is earned or gotten quickly

greedy opportunists looking to make a fast/quick buck

Examples of fast/quick buck in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Synthetic content is flooding search engines and social media like a kind of gray goo, all in hopes of making a quick buck. —Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024

Some are more interested in making a quick buck than in giving you a safe product. —Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024

By disguising her name, Alcott could publish in less prestigious venues for a quick buck without worrying about tarnishing her literary reputation. —Max Chapnick, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2023

Are social media moguls Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg at fault for dialing up the world’s collective temperature just to earn a quick buck? —Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023

Likewise, celebrities jumped at the chance to use their cachet to earn a quick buck, releasing their own lines of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), for example, or their own crypto coins. —WIRED, 27 Sep. 2023

The town itself is a classic of the genre, full of scheming locals, buried secrets and nefarious elites trying to make a quick buck. —David Faris, theweek, 14 Jan. 2024

Unfortunately, there will always be bad actors looking to make a quick buck at the expense of taxpayers. —Chuck Grassley, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023

Probably could have made a quick buck selling these 500 million years ago. —Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2023