What does quiet-quit mean?

quiet-quit

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English

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"I fell in love with acting by doing youth theatre but just wasn’t finding the right challenges, so I quiet-quit. Then my friend Deborah Frances-White, with whom I’ve collaborated a lot on The Guilty Feminist, said: “I’ve written you this amazing part.”"

quiet-quits (present, singular) quiet-quitting (participle, present) quiet-quitted (participle, past) quiet-quitted (past)

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