mile-a-minute
English
Noun
mile-a-minute (plural mile-a-minutes)
- Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.
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Adjective
mile-a-minute (not comparable)
- 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.
References
mile-a-minute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “mile-a-minute”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.