mile-a-minute

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Noun

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mile-a-minute (plural mile-a-minutes)

  1. Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.
    1. Persicaria perfoliata; Polygonum perfoliatum; Asiatic tearthumb; kudzu of the North.
    2. Kudzu; Pueraria lobata; Pueraria montana var. lobata
    3. Ipomoea cairica, a species of morning glory
    4. Mikania micrantha
    5. Fallopia baldschuanica
    6. Dipogon lignosus

Adjective

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mile-a-minute (not comparable)

  1. At the rate of one mile per minute, 60 miles per hour.
    • 1961 April, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 194:
      Mr. Baird adds that this is not the first post-war example of a mile-a-minute timing in G.S.W.R. territory.

Adverb

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mile-a-minute (not comparable)

  1. Very fast
    He was all excited after the game, talking a mile-a-minute about the last-second shot.

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