Mile-a-minute

adj, adv, noun, slang

adj, adv, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.; Asiatic tearthumb, kudzu of the North (Persicaria perfoliata), native to eastern Asia, introduced to northeastern US.
  2. 2
    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.; Kudzu (Pueraria lobata; Pueraria montana var. lobata), native to eastern Asia, highly invasive elsewhere.
  3. 3
    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.; mile-a-minute vine (Ipomoea cairica), native from tropical Africa to the Mediterranean, invasive elsewhere.
  4. 4
    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.; Mikania micrantha, native to the tropical and subtropical Americas.
  5. 5
    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.; Russian vine (Fallopia baldschuanica), native to central Asia, widely naturalized.
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  1. 6
    Any of several species of fast-growing plants, some of which are extremely invasive outside their native range and undesirable.; Okie bean (Dipogon lignosus), native to South Africa, introduced elsewhere.
Adjective
  1. 1
    At the rate of one mile per minute; sixty miles per hour. not-comparable

    "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
  1. 1
    Very fast. idiomatic, informal, not-comparable

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

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chinese fleecevinekudzurussian vine

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"Mr. Baird adds that this is not the first post-war example of a mile-a-minute timing in G.S.W.R. territory."

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