Meaning of shake and bake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something fast, or easy to use or perform; a simple, crude object or action.
   informal
2. A non-commissioned officer with little experience, qualified through a special course.
   US, historical, slang

Examples

“Yet, until the last few decades of the twentieth century, the approach that Levi describes, which chemists like to call ‘shake and bake’, was often the best they could do.”

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