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. Asiatic tearthumb, kudzu of the North (Persicaria perfoliata), native to eastern Asia, introduced to northeastern US.
   2. Kudzu (Pueraria lobata; Pueraria montana var. lobata), native to eastern Asia, highly invasive elsewhere.
   3. mile-a-minute vine (Ipomoea cairica), native from tropical Africa to the Mediterranean, invasive elsewhere.
   4. Mikania micrantha, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas.
   5. Russian vine (Fallopia baldschuanica), native to central Asia, widely naturalized.
   6. Okie bean (Dipogon lignosus), native to South Africa, introduced elsewhere.

Adjective

mile-a-minute (not comparable)

1. At the rate of one mile per minute; sixty 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. (informal, idiomatic) 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.