mile-a-minute

See also: mile a minute

English

Alternative forms

• mile a minute

Noun

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

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

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.

References

• mile-a-minute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “mile-a-minute”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.