Two-forty

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A very fast speed. US, obsolete, slang, uncountable

Etymology

Referring to the sport of trotting (harness racing), in which running a mile in two minutes and forty seconds was considered a very fast pace in 19th-century America.

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two-forty on a plank road

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