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mile-a-minute

adj · adv · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

At the rate of one mile per minute; sixty miles per hour.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

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adv

Meaning 2

Very fast.

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Usage: idiomatic, informal, not-comparable

Examples

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

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noun

Meaning 3

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.

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noun

Meaning 4

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.

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noun

Meaning 5

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.

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noun

Meaning 6

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.

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noun

Meaning 7

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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noun

Meaning 8

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.

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